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 ...

According to a new study, receiving a CT scan was associated with the risk of undergoing a partial or total nephrectomy. The chances of experiencing “incidental detection” are especially high in the ...

PN and RFA offer similar survival for cT1a RCC tumors ≤2 cm, but PN is superior for larger tumors. RFA may be considered for elderly patients with comorbidities, especially for tumors ≤2 cm. PN ...

Partial nephrectomy was associated with the highest survival rate among patients with localized RCC aged 75 years and older compared with radical nephrectomy, ablation, and surveillance. Despite its ...

A scoring criterion which can distinguish between benign and malignant tumors in pediatric patients with renal masses could help determine if they can benefit from partial rather than radical ...

Positive surgical margins after partial nephrectomy for RCC independently predict a higher risk for cancer recurrence. Positive surgical margins (PSMs) following partial nephrectomy for renal cell ...

Reasoning Models for Text Mining in Oncology: A Comparison Between o1 Preview, GPT-4o, and GPT-5 at Different Reasoning Levels Partial nephrectomy has been advocated as the preferred surgical approach ...

A less aggressive type of surgery designed to spare healthy organ tissue is used infrequently to treat early-stage kidney cancer, according to researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive ...

December 11, 2014 - Hospitals with robotic surgical systems are more likely to perform "nephron-sparing" partial nephrectomy--a recommended alternative to removal of the entire kidney--in patients ...