Data on kidneys described by researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Department of Urology

New investigation results, "Impact of positive surgical margins in patients undergoing partial nephrectomy for renal cortical tumours," are detailed in a study published in BJU International. In this recently published article, scientists in the United States conducted a study "To evaluate the clinical outcome of patients undergoing partial nephrectomy (PN) for renal cortical tumours who had a positive surgical margin (SM), as recent studies have shown that a minimal SM is required to achieve equivalent disease-free survival (DFS). Between 1989 and 2005, 777 PNs were performed at the authors' institution. Clinical and pathology data were obtained from our prospective surgical database...

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