Minimally invasive surgery linked to lower major complication risk, reduced length of stay, decreased transfusion rate.

Cardiac transplant status is not significantly associated with adverse in-hospital outcomes in patients with kidney cancer ...

Contrast enhanced CT (CE-CT) changes and nephrometry down-scoring of unresectable primary renal cell carcinoma (RCC) tumors in patients (Pts) treated with neoadjuvant sunitinib. Background: ...

Treatment with glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists was associated with lower probabilities of heart, kidney, and lung complications after partial nephrectomy for RCC. Prescribing glucagon-like ...

Robotic-assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN) led to a lower rate of complications compared with open partial nephrectomy (OPN) in patients with intermediate- or high-complexity kidney tumors, the ...

Kidney removal surgery, a nephrectomy, can cause pain. While most discomfort fades in weeks, some patients experience chronic pain. Understanding different pain types like flank, back, and nerve pain ...

Percutaneous radiofrequency ablation therapy as a first choice for renal tumor in patients with von Hippel-Lindau disease. Background: Gasless single port retroperitoneal radical nephrectomy is ...

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 ...

To avoid positive surgical margins, frozen-section biopsies of the tumor bed have been performed. One study of 301 patients who underwent NSS for tumors with a mean diameter of 3.6 cm analyzed ...

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 ...

Minimally invasive surgery linked to lower major complication risk, reduced length of stay, decreased transfusion rate.

Major complications occur in 7.0% of patients undergoing nephrectomy with a diagnosis of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), according to a study published online Dec. 17 in Urology ...