Kidney or renal biopsy or puncture procedure concept photo. Getty Images Routine renal mass biopsy for small renal masses can spare patients from having to undergo surgery and its associated ...

Patients with small renal masses avoided interventions in 70% of cases during about 3 years of active surveillance that had a standard protocol to identify progression requiring intervention, ...

What motivated you to write the Nature Reviews Urology article? Dr. Crispen: There are still large knowledge gaps regarding the active surveillance of renal masses. The reviewed article by Parker et ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I had a routine ultrasound to check my kidneys because my father (who is 80) has kidney disease, and his urologist said that it is genetic and that my sister and I should get a ...

The multidisciplinary panel thought the tumor’s proximity to the liver made it a bad candidate for percutaneous cryoablation therapy. A hand-assisted laparoscopic right partial nephrectomy was ...

Active surveillance of small renal masses appears to be safe, but if intervention does become necessary, what should trigger it? "We now know that with at least 10 years of data that active ...

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 ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A small trial that compared radiofrequency ablation with stereotactic body radiation therapy for small renal ...

Westfield residents held the city’s first Renal Medullary carcinoma awareness event Monday at Park Square. The candlelight ...