edited by Ronald M. Bukowski, and Andrew C. Novick
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Totowa, NJ :
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Humana Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2008
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (xviii, 663 p., [4] p. of plates) :
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ill. (some col.)
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Nephrectomy in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma: clinical and biologic effects -- Spontaneous regression of renal cell carcinoma and the role of prognostic factors -- Systemic therapy for metastatic renal cell carcinoma: cytokines -- Chemotherapy for metastatic clear-cell renal cell carcinoma -- Signal transduction inhibitors in renal cell carcinoma -- Pulmonary metastases in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma patients -- Management of skeletal metastases in renal cell carcinoma -- Renal cell carcinoma metastatic to the pancreas: clinical and therapeutic aspects -- Intracranial renal cell cancer metastasis -- Role of radiation therapy in advanced renal cell carcinoma -- Palliation in renal cancer -- Management of patients with pathologic variants of renal cell carcinoma: papillary, collecting duct, medullary and chromophobe carcinoma, and sarcomatoid differentiation -- Renal cell carcinoma in patients with end-stage renal disease -- Management of renal adenomas and oncocytomas -- Renal angiomyolipoma: diagnosis and management -- Transitional cell carcinoma of the renal pelvis: management -- Wilms' tumor in children and adults -- Rare malignancies of the kidney: evaluation and management
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Renal cell carcinoma: background -- Imaging of renal cell carcinoma -- The role of percutaneous imaging-guided biopsy in the diagnosis and management of renal masses -- Pathology of renal cell carcinomas -- Epidemiology of renal tumors -- Molecular genetics in inherited renal cell carcinoma: identification of targets in the hereditary syndromes -- T-cell unresponsiveness in renal cell carcinoma patients -- Renal cell carcinoma: clinical presentation and diagnosis -- Clinical and pathologic staging of renal cell carcinoma -- Active surveillance of localized renal tumors -- Radical nephrectomy -- Laparoscopic radical nephrectomy -- Open nephron-sparing surgery for renal cell carcinoma -- Minimally invasive nephron-sparing surgery for renal tumors: laparoscopic partical nephrectomy and probe ablative treatments -- The role of angioinfarction in the management of renal tumors -- Surveillance strategies following curative therapy for localized renal cell carcinoma -- Local recurrence of renal cell carcinoma: management -- Adjuvant therapy of renal cell carcinoma -- Prognostic factors for survival in metastatic renal cell carcinoma -- Functional imaging of renal cell carcinoma