Clinical Management of Renal Tumors

Cover......Page 1
PREFACE......Page 6
CONTENTS......Page 8
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 11
LIST OF COLOR PLATES......Page 14
1 Renal Cell Carcinoma: Background......Page 16
2 Imaging of Renal Cell Carcinoma......Page 24
3 The Role of Percutaneous Imaging Guided Biopsy in the Diagnosis and Management of Renal Masses......Page 58
4 Pathology of Renal Cell Carcinomas......Page 70
5 Epidemiology of Renal Tumors......Page 87
6 Molecular Genetics in Inherited Renal Cell Carcinoma: Identification of Targets in the Hereditary Syndromes......Page 111
7 T-Cell Unresponsiveness in Renal Cell Carcinoma Patients......Page 129
8 Renal Cell Carcinoma: Clinical Presentation and Diagnosis......Page 145
9 Clinical and Pathologic Staging of Renal Cell Carcinoma......Page 159
10 Active Surveillance of Localized Renal Tumors......Page 172
11 Radical Nephrectomy......Page 190
12 Laparoscopic Radical Nephrectomy......Page 208
13 Open Nephron-Sparing Surgery for Renal Cell Carcinoma......Page 218
14 Minimally Invasive Nephron-Sparing Surgery for Renal Tumors: Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy and Probe Ablative Treatments......Page 231
15 The Role of Angioinfarction in the Management of Renal Tumors......Page 259
16 Surveillance Strategies FollowingCurative Therapy for Localized Renal Cell Carcinoma......Page 277
17 Local Recurrence of Renal Cell Carcinoma: Management......Page 286
18 Adjuvant Therapy of Renal Cell Carcinoma......Page 304
19 Prognostic Factors for Survival in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma......Page 318
20 Functional Imaging of Renal Cell Carcinoma......Page 334
21 Nephrectomy in Patients with Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma: Clinical and Biologic Effects......Page 349
22 Spontaneous Regression of Renal Cell Carcinoma and the Role of Prognostic Factors......Page 368
23 Systemic Therapy for Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma: Cytokines......Page 380
24 Chemotherapy for Metastatic Clear-Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma......Page 398
25 Signal Transduction Inhibitors Renal Cell Carcinoma......Page 411
26 Pulmonary Metastases in Patients with Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma: Role of Metastasectomy......Page 426
27 Management of Skeletal Metastases in Renal Cell Carcinoma Patients......Page 432
28 Renal Cell Carcinoma Metastatic to the Pancreas: Clinical and Therapeutic Aspects......Page 471
29 Intracranial Renal Cell Cancer Metastasis......Page 491
30 Role of Radiation Therapy in Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma......Page 506
31 Palliation in Renal Cancer......Page 515
32 Management of Patients with Pathologic Variants of Renal Cell Carcinoma: Papillary,Collecting Duct, Medullary and Chromophobe Carcinoma, and Sarcomatoid Differentiation......Page 537
33 Renal Cell Carcinoma in Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease......Page 553
34 Management of Renal Adenomas and Oncocytomas......Page 562
35 Renal Angiomyolipoma: Diagnosis and Management......Page 571
36 Transitional Cell Carcinoma of the Renal Pelvis: Management......Page 593
37 Wilms\' Tumor in Children and Adults......Page 604
38 Rare Malignancies of the Kidney: Evaluation and Management......Page 622
INDEX......Page 642