Partial nephrectomy versus radical nephrectomy for clinical localised renal masses.

CONCLUSIONS: Partial nephrectomy may be associated with a decreased time-to-death of any cause. With regards to surgery-related mortality, cancer-specific survival and time-to-recurrence, partial nephrectomy appears to result in little to no difference.
PMID: 28485814 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - May 9, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Kunath F, Schmidt S, Krabbe LM, Miernik A, Dahm P, Cleves A, Walther M, Kroeger N Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research