Prolonged survival from renal cell carcinoma after renal allotransplantation.
We herein report on a patient who was subjected to bilateral nephrectomy in the course of treating unilateral renal cell carcinoma. The patient has survived for 3 1/2 years free of tumor and has had normal renal function after a 4 antigen match cadaver kidney allograft.
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000601:surgery*; D006650:Histocompatibility Testing; D006801:Humans; D007165:Immunosuppression Therapy; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009392:Nephrectomy; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous