Andreas Becker, Praful Ravi, Florian Roghmann, Quoc-Dien Trinh, Zhe Tian, Alexandre Larouche, Simon Kim, Shahrokh F Shariat, Luis Kluth, Roland Dahlem, Margit Fisch, Markus Graefen, Christian Eichelberg, Pierre I Karakiewicz, Maxine Sun
OBJECTIVE: To assess postoperative complication profiles and 30-day mortality (30 dM) in older patients undergoing either laparoscopic radical nephrectomy (LRN) compared with open partial nephrectomy (OPN) or laparoscopic partial nephrectomy (LPN) for early stage renal cell carcinoma. METHODS: Using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results-Medicare linked database, 2277 patients aged>65 years with T1 renal cell carcinoma, who underwent LRN, OPN, or LPN were identified (1992-2005)...
June 2014: Urology