I had a routine ultrasound to check my kidneys because my father (who is 80) has kidney disease, and his urologist said that ...

Kidney or renal biopsy or puncture procedure concept photo. Getty Images Routine renal mass biopsy for small renal masses can spare patients from having to undergo surgery and its associated ...

Patients with small renal masses avoided interventions in 70% of cases during about 3 years of active surveillance that had a standard protocol to identify progression requiring intervention, ...

An oncocytoma is a kidney tumour that looks very much like a typical kidney cancer but normally acts like a benign tumour.

The multidisciplinary panel thought the tumor’s proximity to the liver made it a bad candidate for percutaneous cryoablation therapy. A hand-assisted laparoscopic right partial nephrectomy was ...

Unfortunately, the sensitivity of biopsy of small renal masses has been found to be lower than that of biopsy of 4-6 cm renal masses, 84% vs. 97%, 19 although more recent papers looking only at small ...

Active surveillance of small renal masses appears to be safe, but if intervention does become necessary, what should trigger it? "We now know that with at least 10 years of data that active ...

A scoring criterion which can distinguish between benign and malignant tumors in pediatric patients with renal masses could help determine if they can benefit from partial rather than radical ...

BOSTON – For the first time ever, surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston transplanted a pig kidney into a living human patient. Mass General said Thursday the procedure was the first ...