Nephron-sparing surgery (NSS; also known as partial nephrectomy) is an alternative treatment for RCC that has quality-of-life benefits, as it is associated with superior postprocedural renal ...

February 11, 2011 — Less radical renal tumor surgery (nephron-sparing surgery; NSS) can offer better long-term kidney function than radical nephrectomy (RN) for tumors larger than 4 cm ...

Cardiovascular Event Risk Not Up for Living Kidney Donors For patients with bilateral renal masses, nephron sparing surgery (NSS) results in excellent long-term oncological and functional outcomes ...

Nephron sparing surgery (NSS) is safe and appropriate for all small renal cell carcinomas that develop in transplanted kidneys, according to researchers who concluded that the surgery is ...

Gemcitabine Plus Cisplatin, an Active Regimen in Advanced Urothelial Cancer: A Phase II Trial of the National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group PURPOSE: To analyze the experience with ...

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 ...

Inman, MD, Professor of Surgery and Member of the Duke Cancer Institute, Durham, NC, assessed the long-term renal outcomes among 426 patients with UTUC who underwent NSS or RNU. 1 In addition ...

The RENAL nephrometry score is widely used in cases of adult kidney cancer to determine who might be offered nephron-sparing surgery, but the latter has not traditionally been employed in ...

Laparoscopic nephron-sparing surgery (NSS) is technically very demanding and seems to be feasible and effective only when performed by a very experienced surgeon. We report 7 cases of laparoscopic ...

A similar proportion of patients had nephron-sparing interventions with immediate or delayed surgery. Perioperative complications, surgical outcomes, and survival also did not differ between ...

The anaesthetist will give you a general anaesthetic (GA) so you will be asleep when you have the surgery. The surgeon only removes the part of the kidney containing the cancer. The rest of the kidney ...