Results of Radical Nephrectomy with Extensive Lymphadenectomy for Renal Cell Carcinoma

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Abstract
Radical nephrectomy with extensive lymphadenectomy was performed by the same surgeon on 104 consecutive patients with renal cell carcinoma. No significant differences in over-all survival owing to age, sex and preoperative embolization were noted. Only extension of the disease proved to be important as a prognostic factor. In the light of the statistical analysis of this variable the prognosis for patients with renal cell carcinoma was classified as: good-patients with tumors confined to the kidney, intermediate-patients with perirenal fat involvement, lympho node metastases and venous extension; and poor-patients with distant metastases.