Background. A 57-year-old woman presented to the emergency department at a community hospital with a 2-month history of fatigue and right-sided flank and abdominal pain. Noncontrast CT of the abdomen ...

Background A 63-year-old man underwent hand-assisted laparoscopic partial nephrectomy for a 4.5 cm right renal mass, pathologically confirmed as type 2 papillary renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Two years ...

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 ...

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New Rochelle, NY, March 15, 2011—Since the first laparoscopic procedure was performed to remove a diseased kidney 20 years ago at Washington University in St. Louis, this breakthrough minimally ...

A population-based cohort study evaluated the long-term scrotal surgery rates after laparoscopic nephrectomy in male living kidney donors compared with nondonors. The findings revealed that the ...

More than 60% of renal cell carcinomas are now detected incidentally. Such tumors are smaller than those found based on symptomatology, less likely to metastasize, and often amenable to ...

A phase II study of S-1 for the treatment of cytokine and/or tyrosine-kinase inhibitor (TKI) refractory metastatic renal cell carcinoma: Updated results. Background: Laparoscopic and robotic partial ...

The size of the cancer and whether it has spread will help your surgeon decide what type of surgery you can have. They might recommend you have part of your kidney removed (partial nephrectomy) or ...

This was an observational, descriptive, retrospective, single-center study of cases of nephrectomies for non-functional kidney in the urology department of the Ouakam Military Hospital over a ...

1. Which doctor should I consult for undergoing nephrectomy? You should consult a surgeon such as an Urologist. 2. Why should I have a kidney removed? You might have your kidney removed if it is ...