A 76-year-old woman presented to the emergency department after seeing blood in her urine. She explained that this had been going on since the previous day, when she also began to experience episodes ...

Obliteration of normal renal parenchyma by kidney cancer is associated with worse oncologic outcomes, according to a recent study. The study of 1122 patients with nonmetastatic renal cell carcinoma ...

Credit: Getty Images. NephroScan is a sterile, single-dose kit for the preparation of technetium Tc 99m succimer injection for intravenous use. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved ...

The decision to undergo partial instead of radical nephrectomy should be individualized, according to investigators. In patients with localized renal cell carcinoma (RCC), nephron-sparing partial ...

Since the introduction of shockwave lithotripsy in 1980 for the management of renal stones, minimally invasive therapy for urolithiasis has improved and various new techniques have been introduced. [3 ...

Chronic kidney disease is defined as damage of the renal parenchyma that results in chronic deterioration of kidney function and may result in progression to end-stage renal disease. It is a ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Reports of increasing rates for kidney cancers in several countries prompted this analysis of global incidence trends for total kidney cancers ...