Background. A 57-year-old woman presented to the emergency department at a community hospital with a 2-month history of fatigue and right-sided flank and abdominal pain. Noncontrast CT of the abdomen ...

MIAMI — Despite varying guidelines, surveillance and ablation may have an increasing role in the management of small renal masses, according to a presenter at International Kidney Cancer Symposium. R.

Urological meetings abound with industrial representatives of MIS, and medical centers and hospitals have invested substantial sums to equip operating rooms and train staff to incorporate MIS into ...

The recently developed single-port, multichannel access approach to urologic surgery may allow many common laparoscopic and robotic procedures to be performed entirely through the patient’s umbilicus, ...

Failure to recommend a colonoscopy for an eldelry woman results in a malpractice suit. Open procedures, preoperative dialysis, and higher ASA score were significant predictors of readmission after ...

A new study reveals that the type of surgery a patient with kidney cancer receives depends more on the surgeon’s preference than on the patient’s tumor size, demographic characteristics, or general ...

Pts = patients, BMI = body mass index, OT = operative time, EBL = estimated blood loss, Morph.Eq = morphine equivalents, HS = hospital stay. Level of evidence IV = case-series (and poor quality cohort ...

In 2009, the American Urological Association released guidelines recommending partial nephrectomy for the treatment of renal cancer, owing to its similar efficacy to radical nephrectomy, while ...