Clinical Management of Renal Tumors

1. Renal Cell Carcinoma: Background

Ronald M. Bukowski, Andrew C. Novick

2. Imaging of Renal Cell Carcinoma
Brian R. Herts

3. The Role of Percutaneous Imaging-Guided Biopsy in the Diagnosis and Management of Renal Masses
Brian R. Herts, Stuart G. Silverman

4. Pathology of Renal Cell Carcinomas
Ming Zhou

5. Epidemiology of Renal Tumors
Jeffrey S. Montgomery, David P. Wood

6. Molecular Genetics in Inherited Renal Cell Carcinoma: Identification of Targets in the Hereditary Syndromes
Nadeem Dhanani, Cathy Vocke, Gennady Bratslavsky, W. Marston Linehan

7. T-cell Unresponsiveness in Renal Cell Carcinoma Patients
James H. Finke, Mahesh Goel

8. Renal Cell Carcinoma: Clinical Presentation and Diagnosis

Venkatesh Krishnamurthi

9. Clinical and Pathologic Staging of Renal Cell Carcinoma
Alison M. Lake, Cara Cimmino, James E. Montie, Khaled S. Hafez

10. Active Surveillance of Localized Renal Tumors
Paul L. Crispen, Sameer N. Chawla, Robert G. Uzzo

11. Radical Nephrectomy
Benjamin I. Chung, John A. Libertino

12. Laparoscopic Radical Nephrectomy
Benjamin I. Chung, Jose R. Colombo, Inderbir S. Gill

13. Open Nephron-Sparing Surgery for Renal Cell Carcinoma
Andrew C. Novick

14. Minimally Invasive Nephron-Sparing Surgery for Renal Tumors: Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy and Probe Ablative Treatments

Monish Aron, Georges-Pascal Haber, Inderbir S. Gill

15. The Role of Angioinfarction in the Management of Renal Tumors
Bryan T. Kansas, Paul L. Crispen, Robert G. Uzzo

16. Surveillance Strategies Following Curative Therapy for Localized Renal Cell Carcinoma
Vitaly Margulis, Surena F. Matin, Christopher G. Wood

17. Local Recurrence of Renal Cell Carcinoma: Management

Brian K. McNeil, Steven C. Campbell

18. Adjuvant Therapy of Renal Cell Carcinoma
Ronald M. Bukowski

19. Prognostic Factors for Survival in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma
Paul J. Elson

20. Functional Imaging of Renal Cell Carcinoma
Navneet S. Majhail, Ronald M. Bukowski

21. Nephrectomy in Patients with Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma: Clinical and Biologic Effects

Bradley G. Orris, Robert C. Flanigan

22. Spontaneous Regression of Renal Cell Carcinoma and the Role of Prognostic Factors
Tim Oliver, Tom Powles, Vinod Nargund, Dan Berney

23. Systemic Therapy for Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma: Cytokines

Thomas E. Hutson

24. Chemotherapy for Metastatic Clear-Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma
James O. Jin, Walter M. Stadler

25. Signal Transduction Inhibitors in Renal Cell Carcinoma
Ellen A. Ronnen, Saby George, Ronald M. Bukowski, Robert J. Motzer

26. Pulmonary Metastases in Patients with Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma: Role of Metastasectomy

Sudish Murthy

27. Management of Skeletal Metastases in Renal Cell Carcinoma Patients
Michael J. Joyce

28. Renal Cell Carcinoma Metastatic to the Pancreas: Clinical and Therapeutic Aspects

Ahmed Al-Hazzouri, Brian R. Herts, Ronald M. Bukowski

29. Intracranial Renal Cell Cancer Metastasis
Kene Ugokwe, Steven A. Toms

30. Role of Radiation Therapy in Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma
Arul Mahadevan

31. Palliation in Renal Cancer
Mellar P. Davis

32. Management of Patients with Pathologic Variants of Renal Cell Carcinoma: Papillary, Collecting Duct, Medullary and Chromophobe Carcinoma, and Sarcomatoid Differentiation

Vladimir Hugec, Janice P. Dutcher

33. Renal Cell Carcinoma in Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease
John C. Rabets, David A. Goldfarb

34. Management of Renal Adenomas and Oncocytomas
Igor Frank, Michael L. Blute

35. Renal Angiomyolipoma: Diagnosis and Management

Surena F. Matin, Pheroze Tamboli, Christopher G. Wood

36. Transitional Cell Carcinoma of the Renal Pelvis: Management

Jorge A. Garcia, Robert Dreicer

37. Wilms’ Tumor in Children and Adults
Jonathan H. Ross

38. Rare Malignancies of the Kidney: Evaluation and Management

Kristian R. Novakovic, Steven C. Campbell

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Urology/Andrology, Oncology, Surgical Oncology, Minimally Invasive Surgery