Decreased renal function is prevalent in patients with small unilateral renal tumors even with a normal contralateral kidney. Ablative or extirpative nephron sparing techniques are effective for preserving renal function in these patients.

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The addition of gentamicin to current prophylactic regimens significantly reduced the rate of hospitalization for post-biopsy infectious complications and was shown to be cost-effective.

Abstract:In the past decade, the armamentarium of targeted therapy agents for the treatment of metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) has significantly increased. Improvements in response rates and survival, with more manageable side effects compared with interleukin 2/interferon immunotherapy, have been reported with the use of targeted therapy agents, including vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors (sunitinib, sorafenib, pazopanib, axitinib), mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitors (everolimus and temsirolimus) and VEGF receptor antibodies (bevacizumab). Current guidelines reflect these new therapeutic approaches with treatments based on risk category, histology and line of therapy in the metastatic setting. However, while radical nephrectomy remains the standard of care for locally advanced RCC, the migration and use of these agents from salvage to the neoadjuvant setting for large unresectable masses, high-level venous tumor thrombus involvement, and patients with imperative indications for nephron sparing has been increasingly described in the literature. Several trials have recently been published and some are still recruiting patients in the neoadjuvant setting. While the results of these trials will inform and guide the use of these agents in the neoadjuvant setting, there still remains a considerable lack of consensus in the literature regarding the effectiveness, safety and clinical utility of neoadjuvant therapy. The goal of this review is to shed light on the current body of evidence with regards to the use of neoadjuvant treatments in the setting of locally advanced RCC.

Purpose Isolated local retroperitoneal recurrence (RPR) after radical nephrectomy (RN) for renal cell carcinoma (RCC) poses a therapeutic challenge. We investigated the outcomes of patients with localized RPR treated with surgical resection. Methods This was a retrospective single-institutional study of 102 patients with RPR treated with surgery from 1990-2014. Demographics, clinical and pathological features, location of RPR, perioperative complications were reported using descriptive statistics. Recurrence free survival (RFS) and cancer-specific survival (CSS) were studied using univariate and multivariate analyses. Results Median age at RPR diagnosis was 55 years (IQR 49-64). Sixty-two (60.8%) patients were pT3-4 and 20 (19.6%) were pN1. No patients had distant metastatic disease at time of RPR surgery. Median time from nephrectomy to RPR diagnosis was 19 months (IQR 5-38.8). The median size of resected RPR was 4.5cm (IQR 2.7-7). Median follow up after RPR surgery was 32 months (IQR 16-57). Metastatic progression was observed in 60 (58.8%) patients after RPR surgery. Neoadjuvant and salvage systemic therapy were administered in 46 (45.1%) and 48 (47.1%) patients, respectively. On multivariate analysis, pathological nodal stage at original nephrectomy and maximum diameter of RPR were identified as independent risk factors for cancer specific death. Conclusion Clinico-pathological factors at the time of nephrectomy as well as RPR surgery are important prognosticators. Aggressive surgical resection offers potential cure in a substantial number of patients with RPR with acceptable complications, and still plays a dominant role in the management of isolated locally recurrent RCC.