With the widespread use of abdominal imaging, there has been a substantial increase in the detection of incidental, small renal masses. This change has resulted in a downward trend in the size and ...

Urological meetings abound with industrial representatives of MIS, and medical centers and hospitals have invested substantial sums to equip operating rooms and train staff to incorporate MIS into ...

The development of minimally invasive laparoscopic renal tumor surgery and tumor-ablative techniques has been ongoing for 14 years. The advantages of cosmetic incisions, decreased perioperative ...

The investigators observed significantly higher postoperative CTC counts in the open radical nephrectomy group compared with the other 3 groups in the study. More circulating tumor cells may enter the ...

Association of chronic co-morbidities with long term survival with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC). This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2015 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium. This abstract ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Robotic partial nephrectomy appeared associated with predominantly superior outcomes compared with open or ...

A person normally has two kidneys with a million functioning units called nephrons in each kidney. Open partial nephrectomy is a surgical procedure in which a part of a kidney is removed due to either ...

Preoperative metastatic disease burden to predict overall survival following cytoreductive nephrectomy independent of IMDC risk category. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2020 Genitourinary ...

Kidneys from live donors are considered more likely to be successful in treating endstage renal disease than those from cadaver donors. The standard technique for retrieving kidneys from live donors ...

2.1.1 Kidneys from live donors are considered more likely to be successful in treating endstage renal disease than those from cadaver donors. 2.1.2 The standard technique for retrieving kidneys from ...

Background Laparoscopic radical nephrectomy (LRN) is the actual gold-standard for the treatment of clinically localized renal cell carcinoma (RCC) (cT1–2 with no indications for nephron-sparing ...