Current experience in the diagnosis and treatment of renal tumors
Vargas Delaunoy, F.; Ceruti Bercovich, E.; Riffo Figueroa, C.
Archivos Espanoles de Urologia 37(5): 412-418
1984
ISSN/ISBN: 0004-0614 PMID: 6517626 Document Number: 236540
The clinical stage, diagnostic methods and treatment in 60 patients harboring hypernephromas, seen at the Urologic service of Paula Jaraquemada Hospital [Chile] during 4.5 yr (1979-1983) are analyzed. The usefulness of preoperative embolization and radical nephrectomy through the anterior thoraco-abdominal approach, as technique of choice, is emphasized. Both techniques improve the postoperative survival and allow the removal of practically 100% of the tumors, even those considered as unoperable.