The widespread use of standard laparoscopic procedures has been constrained by the technical difficulties presented by patients with PKD who have massively enlarged and cystic kidneys.

Stage 2 clear cell renal cell carcinoma is typically curable, especially when detected early. Surgery remains the cornerstone ...

Nephron-sparing surgery may not reduce the risk for later kidney failure in patients with kidney cancer and stage 4 CKD. Despite the promise of nephron-sparing, new study findings suggest that the ...

Loss of functional kidney tissue after nephrectomy for kidney cancer contributes to the onset of chronic kidney disease (CKD).

Surgery to remove a cancerous kidney can often lengthen the lives of patients receiving targeted therapy for metastatic kidney cancer, but only about three in ten such patients undergo the procedure, ...

Major complications occur in 7.0% of patients undergoing nephrectomy with a diagnosis of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), according to a study published online Dec. 17 in Urology ...

Telesurgery was as reliable as standard robotic surgery for two common urological procedures, according to a small Chinese ...

Despite the evolution of systemic therapy from the immunotherapy to targeted therapy eras, surgical management remains a mainstay of treatment of patients with locally advanced, lymph node–positive, ...

UAB Division of Transplantation Professor and Surgical Director of Kidney Transplantation, Michael Hanaway, M.D., has recently been featured on UAB MedCast. During the episode, Hanaway discusses ...

A shocking diagnosis led a writer to focus on the dispassionate medical details, until his body jolted him into confronting what he hadn’t.