Most guidelines still treat indeterminate (Rx) surgical margins after nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma (RCC) as equivalent to negative (R0) margins, but it is not.

The widespread use of standard laparoscopic procedures has been constrained by the technical difficulties presented by patients with PKD who have massively enlarged and cystic kidneys.

In the treatment of small renal masses, robotic partial nephrectomy (RPN) has a superior morbidity profile compared with laparoscopic partial nephrectomy (LPN), according to an updated meta-analysis ...

Show More Hiten D. Patel and Mohamad E. Allaf, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; Jose A. Karam, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX. Despite the ...

In a partial nephrectomy, a portion of your kidney is surgically removed, sparing some function in that kidney. This surgery is most often performed in instances of a small tumor localized to the ...

January 10, 2008 — Most patients found to have a small kidney tumor, between 2 and 4 cm in size, have the whole kidney removed. However, new findings suggest that for younger patients a partial ...

Pre-surgical immunotherapy combinations reduce tumor size and help kill cancer cells at the time of surgery for patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC), according to findings from a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Lower rates of adverse outcomes were linked to higher technical skill Surgeons with higher scores had lower ...

Keytruda after nephrectomy improved disease-free survival rates in patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma regardless of disease risk or stage. Patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC ...