Resection of Renal Tumors Invading the Vena Cava

Urologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 657-671

  Wotkowicz, Chad ^a   Wszolek, Matthew F ^a   Libertino, John A ^a  

^a LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Inferior vena cava; Renal cell carcinoma; Surgical management

Indexed keywords

BONE SCINTISCANNING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY INFARCTION; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; KIDNEY VEIN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NEPHRECTOMY; NEPHRON SPARING SURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SURGICAL THROMBECTOMY; SURVIVAL RATE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR THROMBUS; VEIN BYPASS; VEIN RECONSTRUCTION;

CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LIVER; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEPHRECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RENAL ARTERY; RENAL VEINS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 55049111906     PISSN: 00940143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ucl.2008.07.013     Document Type: Review

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