PURPOSE We evaluated the impact of renal tumor size on the oncologic and surgical efficacy of laparoscopic renal cryosurgery (LRC) according to our intermediate-term experience in Korea. MATERIALS AND METHODS From June 2005 to October 2008, we enrolled 37 patients who underwent LRC for 40 renal tumors. Patients were stratified into four groups according to renal tumor size. Patients who prese...

Renal measurements were made by ultrasonography in 560 healthy newborn infants. Three dependent variables (kidney length, kidney depth, and kidney area) were measured, together with three independent variables (birth weight, head circumference, and gestational age). The SD of the measurement inconsistency was 0.13 cm for length, 0.078 cm for depth, and 0.32 cm2 for area; the percentages of tota...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the differences between tumor sizes measured by preoperative computed tomography (CT) imaging and pathologic examination of surgical specimens in Chinese patients who received extirpative surgery for renal tumors. METHODS From September 2008 to September 2010, 204 patients with renal tumors treated in the Renji Hospital were enrolled in this study, and their clinicopa...

Objective: To accurately describe the growth of human renal clear cell carcinoma. In our earlier research, the growth model of renal tumors is linear and is not accurate. A better growth model is needed. Methods: There patients under surveillance for more than ten years with renal tumors were analyzed. Tumor size and time were recorded in each observation. Curve fitting of renal tumor growth wa...

Thirteen patients with chronic renal failure and uraemia were investigated by echocardiography preoperatively before and after haemodialysis and again after a successful renal transplantation to evaluate the cardiac changes caused by renal transplantation. After renal transplantation, the left ventricular end-diastolic and end-systolic diameters, as well as the cardiac index, decreased, probabl...

The clinical value of measuring the size of the two kidneys has now received general acknowledgement. Among other things it has provided a means of studying the natural history of certain renal diseases in a manner not possible before. One of the important results of this study is the realization that a number of renal conditions which first draw attention to themselves in adult life have in fa...

OBJECTIVE To assess the normal sonographic values of renal length and cortical thickness in healthy adults and establish reference ranges in our population for comparison when examining renal disease. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Sonographic assessment of renal length and cortical thickness were performed from January 2006 to December 2011 in 252 healthy individuals who were self-referred to the El-R...

Introduction. End stage renal failure in children is a rare but devastating condition, and kidney transplantation remains the only permanent treatment option. The aim of this review was to elucidate the broad surgical issues surrounding the mismatch in size of adult kidney donors to their paediatric recipients. Methods. A comprehensive literature search was undertaken on PubMed, MEDLINE, and Go...

Two hundred and five healthy Malaysian adults were scanned for the length of their kidneys and the cortical thickness by both the sector real time and linear array static B-scan diagnostic ultrasound. The length of the left kidney was found to measure 105 (98-111) mm for males, and 100 (94-106) mm for females on average from the sector scan and the static B-scan. The right renal length was 102 ...

PURPOSE We present our initial experience with microperc in patients with moderate-size renal calculi. PATIENTS AND METHODS A retrospective analysis of 30 patients (male 14, female 16) with moderate-size (1-3 cm) kidney stones who underwent microperc between August 2011 and July 2012 was performed. The demographic values, perioperative and postoperative measures including age, stone size and ...