For most children with renal masses, the standard of care has long been to remove the entire affected kidney- which is the protocol for Wilms tumor, the most common kidney cancer in children. But is ...

Nephron-sparing surgery (NSS) for small renal masses substantially decreases the incidence of moderate renal dysfunction compared with radical nephrectomy (RN), according to the results of the ...

The mortality rate among patients with local recurrence was 22%, compared to 7.5% among patients without local recurrence. After nephron-sparing ablation therapy or partial nephrectomy for the ...