BILATERAL RENAL CELL CARCINOMA

JOHNSON, DOUGLAS E.
VONESCHENBACH, ANDREW
STERNBERG, JACK

From the Department of Surgery, Section of Urology, and Department of Medicine, Section of Medical Oncology, The University of Texas System Cancer Center, M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, Houston, Texas

Accepted for publication May 13, 1977.

Read at annual meeting of Western Section, American Urological Association, San Francisco, California, March 13–17, 1977

Journal of Urology 119(1):p 23-24, January 1978. | DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5347(17)57369-3

Bilateral renal cell carcinoma was diagnosed simultaneously in 6 patients and sequentially in 4 patients, 3 to 14 years after the first tumor had been removed by nephrectomy. Four patients treated conservatively with incomplete excision of the malignant disease are alive 18 months to 14 years after diagnosis. Our experience suggests that a radical excision, requiring renal dialysis or transplantation, is seldom warranted.