Mortality and morbidity after cytoreductive nephrectomy for metastatic renal cell carcinoma: a population-based study.

  • Firas Abdollah
  • Maxine Sun
  • Rodolphe Thuret
  • Jan Schmitges
  • Shahrokh F Shariat
  • Paul Perrotte
  • Francesco Montorsi
  • Pierre I Karakiewicz

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Abstract

To test whether the rates of in-hospital mortality, complications, and transfusions are higher in patients treated with cytoreductive nephrectomy (CNT) for metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) relative to patients treated with nephrectomy (NT) for non-mRCC.

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Original languageEnglish
Article number10
ISSN1068-9265
Publication statusPublished - 2011
pubmed 21499808