The widespread use of modern abdominal imaging (computed tomography [CT], magnetic resonance imaging [MRI], and ultrasound) has propagated the detection of renal masses unrelated to the presenting ...

Minimally invasive, nephron-sparing surgical approaches are considered the gold standard for management of small renal masses. But what about patients who are interested in avoiding treatment; ...

October 4, 2006 -- A new study showed that over the past 20 years, greater numbers of small kidney tumors are being detected and surgically excised, yet incidence and mortality rates of kidney cancer ...

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Current Management of Small Renal Masses, Including Patient Selection, Renal Tumor Biopsy, Active Surveillance, and Thermal Ablation. If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download ...

Background A 64-year-old man with a history of hypertension and type II diabetes mellitus presented to his primary care physician for his annual health examination. Renal ultrasonography revealed a ...

The incidence of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is rising steadily, with the greatest increase being in localized tumors. 1 Most renal tumors are now detected during imaging as incidental, enhancing, ...

Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) can effectively treat small benign tumors in a single session, and long-term outcomes of RFA for renal tumors depend on tumor size, according to the findings of two ...

Many benign kidney tumors don’t cause symptoms. But when symptoms do occur, they can include blood in the urine and pain in the lower back or between the ribs and hips. Benign kidney tumors are ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A small trial that compared radiofrequency ablation with stereotactic body radiation therapy for small renal ...

Clear cell renal cell carcinoma tumors grow at a faster rate than papillary type 1 tumors, according to a new study. Growth rates of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) tumors differ by histologic subtypes, ...

Conventional imaging studies such as ultrasound, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging are increasingly detecting small renal masses, which are interpreted by radiologists as highly ...