title: Results after organ-preserving surgery for renal cell carcinoma. An Austrian multicenter study.
abstract: Data from 120 patients diagnosed as having renal cell carcinoma (RCC), and treated in an organ-preserving surgical manner were analyzed from 11 participating Austrian urological centers. The male to female ratio was 66:54. The subjects age ranged from 27 to 75 years with mean age of 59 years. The indication for conservative tissue-saving surgery was a solitary kidney in 48 instances, a bilateral RCC in 18 cases and, in 2 patients, a horseshoe kidney tumor. In 52 cases the indication for conservative surgery was a peripheral, easily resectable, low-stage tumor (elective indication). Results were comparable to radical nephrectomy of low-stage tumors especially relating to survival rates. Ninety-nine patients survived and were tumor free at the point of check up (December 1988). Thirteen patients had either local tumor recurrence and/or metastases and 5 patients died from the disease. The operative mortality and the morbidity rate was very low.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Universitätsklinik Wien.
authors.forename: P H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Petritsch
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rauchenwald
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Zechner
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ludvik
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Pummer
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Urlesberger
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Eberle
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Joos
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kaufman
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Kugler
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000601:surgery; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015996:Survival Rate