Bilateral Renal Cell Carcinoma and Renal Cell Carcinoma in the Solitary Kidney

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Abstract
Patients (43) with renal cell carcinoma in a solitary kidney were reported, 39 of whom underwent a potentially curative resection. Of 36 patients who had a nephron salvaging procedure, only 4 required ex vivo surgical resection. The survival curves of patients with solitary or bilateral lesions are similar, and depend more on the adequacy of tumor resection and tumor stage than on the fate of the contralateral kidney. Crude survival in this series was 64% for patients followed for > 1 yr.