This volume provides an in-depth review of the data relating to the management of renal tumors. It offers an updated description regarding pathologic and molecular classification of renal tumors. It further reviews medical and surgical approaches to therapy.

Clinical Management of Renal Tumors provides an in-depth review of the data relating to the management of renal tumors as well as an updated description regarding pathologic and molecular classification of renal tumors. The neoplasms covered include clear cell carcinomas, papillary cancers, nonepithelial tumors, and other mass lesions that resemble tumors. The management of patients with renal cancer having localized or advanced disease are discussed. Surgical approaches for primary and metastatic tumors, symptom palliation, and systemic therapy for metastatic disease including immunotherapy and targeted approaches are discussed in detail.

Compiles some of the best data on the clinical management of renal tumors by world-renowned experts Includes diagnostic and therapeutic coverage Details both medical and surgical approaches to therapy Covers the work of experts like Andrew Novick, who has devised groundbreaking minimally invasive techniques for renal surgery

Inhalt
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 Partial 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.- 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: Role of Metastasectomy.- Management of Skeletal Metastases in Renal Cell Carcinoma Patients.- Renal Cell Carcinoma Metastatic to the Pancreas: Clinical and Therapeutic Aspects.- Intracranial RenalCell 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.