(HealthDay News) — Completely intracorporeal robotic level III inferior vena cava tumor thrombectomy is feasible, according to a report published recently in The Journal of Urology. Inderbir S. Gill, ...

Surgery is required when cancer of the kidney causes a Level III thrombus, or clot, to develop in the major vein leading back to the heart. Traditionally this complicated procedure, inferior vena cava ...

Renal cell carcinoma with inferior vena cava thrombus can be a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge; however, the surgical resection of these tumors can be facilitated by appropriate preoperative ...

(HealthDay News) — Completely intracorporeal robotic level III inferior vena cava tumor thrombectomy is feasible, according to a report published recently in The Journal of Urology. Inderbir S. Gill, ...

Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is the most common type of kidney cancer, accounting for about 90% of kidney cancer incidence. In about 10% of RCC cases, a blot clot known as inferior vena cava (IVC) ...

Kidney cancer is not always confined to the kidney. In advanced cases, this cancer invades the body's biggest vein, the inferior vena cava (IVC), which carries blood out of the kidneys back to the ...

image: In this illustration, a mass (depicted as jagged) is shown on a kidney (Level I, at left). The tumor extends up the inferior vena cava vein (blue) to the liver (Level III) and approaches the ...

Two children are presented in whom thrombosis of the inferior vena cava developed in association with an acute staphylococcal osteomyelitis. One case involved the left femur and the other the left ...

AS hospitalized patients in increasing numbers survive a multiplicity of other medical and surgical crises, pulmonary embolism continues as a chief immediate cause of death. Although anticoagulant ...

Background. A 57-year-old woman presented to the emergency department at a community hospital with a 2-month history of fatigue and right-sided flank and abdominal pain. Noncontrast CT of the abdomen ...

New York, NY, July 29, 2015 - Surgery is required when cancer of the kidney causes a Level III thrombus, or clot, to develop in the major vein leading back to the heart. Traditionally this complicated ...

Robotic surgery compared favorably with standard surgery in a review and analysis of data from 1,375 patients who underwent surgery to remove cancer from the kidney and inferior vena cava. The ...