Relieving venous congestion using thrombectomy may preserve kidney function in RCC with IVC tumor thrombus.

A 77-year-old woman with Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status of 1 and multiple comorbidities originally presented with fatigue and progressive weakness. Her laboratory tests ...

The prognostic role of sarcopenia and albumin in locally advanced renal cell carcinoma with IVC tumor thrombus. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2022 ASCO Genitourinary Cancers Symposium.

Preoperative renal artery embolization of RCC with IVC thrombus may reduce blood loss and improve dissection outcomes in well-selected patients undergoing nephrectomy and thrombectomy. Preoperative ...

image: In this illustration, a mass (depicted as jagged) is shown on a kidney (Level I, at left). The tumor extends up the inferior vena cava vein (blue) to the liver (Level III) and approaches the ...

Kidney cancer is not always confined to the kidney. In advanced cases, this cancer invades the body's biggest vein, the inferior vena cava (IVC), which carries blood out of the kidneys back to the ...

Physicians at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse describe in the December issue of Urology the first case ever in which doctors used minimally invasive robotic surgery to perform a radical ...

Robotic surgery compared favorably with standard surgery in a review and analysis of data from 1,375 patients who underwent surgery to remove cancer from the kidney and inferior vena cava. The ...