Andersen MH et al. (2006) Postoperative pain and convalescence in living kidney donors—laparoscopic versus open donor nephrectomy: a randomized study. Am J Transplant 6: 1438–1443 Kidney transplant ...

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 ...

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.

Live donor kidney transplantation was first applied as a clinical strategy in pediatric transplantation because of the disparate wait by children compared with adults for cadaveric donor kidneys. As ...

An expert explains the different types of kidney cancer surgeries, and what patients can expect to experience after the procedure. There are multiple types of kidney cancer surgery nowadays, from ...

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.

Surgical removal is the treatment of choice for kidney tumors detected early. For the growing number of kidney tumors detected early—often before they cause symptoms—surgical removal is the ...

Kidney transplant donors who undergo laparoscopic surgery have significantly less postoperative pain and more-rapid convalescence than those who undergo traditional open surgery, according to the ...