Upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) accounts for roughly 5% of urothelial carcinomas.
Historically, the gold standard for high-risk or bulky low-risk UTUC was an open radical …

Diagnostic ureterorenoscopy is powerful tool to confirm upper tract urothelial cancer
(UTUC). However, URS and associated manipulation may be related to the risk of …

Purpose: Radical open nephroureterectomy (ONU) with bladder cuff excision (BCE) is the
traditional gold standard approach for management of high-risk non-metastatic upper tract …

Methods: We retrospectively analyzed patients who underwent radical nephroureterectomy
with distal ureter management for UTUC between January 1990 and June 2010 at 10 …

Objective To compare our initial robotic-assisted nephroureterectomy (RAN) experience with
a well-established practice of performing laparoscopic nephroureterectomy (LN) to treat …

Background Upper urinary tract urothelial carcinomas are relatively rare and have a cancer-
specific survival rate of 20%–30%. The current gold standard treatment for nonmetastatic …

This study aimed to compare the oncologic outcomes between retroperitoneal radical
nephroureterectomy (rRNU) and transperitoneal radical nephroureterectomy (tRNU) for the …

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a common condition among elderly patients and has been
reported to be a biomarker for the presence of malignant disease. In addition, unfavorable …

Objectives To assess the oncological outcomes of several distal ureter management
techniques in patients administered with radical nephroureterectomy (RNU) for primary …

The nephroureterectomy (NU) is the standard of care for invasive upper tract urothelial
carcinoma (UTUC) and has been around for well over one hundred years. Since then new …