title: Organ-preserving surgery for renal cell carcinoma in patients with a solitary kidney or bilateral tumors.
abstract: Organ-preserving surgery is generally accepted when renal cell carcinoma (RCC) occurs in a solitary kidney or in both kidneys. Over a 12-year period, 238 patients underwent surgery for RCC at our hospital; 15 (6.3%) of these underwent organ-preserving procedures. Nine of ten patients with disease in a solitary kidney are alive without evidence of tumor (four more than 5 years postoperatively and five from 2 to 4 years). Six patients had bilateral disease, three of whom are alive at 2, 2, and 3 years, and three of whom died at 4, 5, and 9 years.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, University of Graz, Austria.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hubmer
authors.forename: P H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Petritsch
mesh_terms: D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000601:surgery; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000601:surgery*; D009392:Nephrectomy / Q000379:methods*; D011379:Prognosis