HOW TO TAKE THE POST-TEST: To obtain CME credit, please click here after reading the article to take the post-test on myCME.com. Nephrologists routinely use biopsy of the kidney for making diagnoses ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today, small kidney tumors are most often treated with a minor operation in which all or part of the kidney is removed. However, in many cases, these small tumors can be treated with targeted ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The prognostic value of Meet-URO score in patients with metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma receiving second or third-line tyrosine kinase inhibitors/immune checkpoint inhibitors combination ...

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 ...

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 ...