Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . PHILADELPHIA — Percutaneous kidney biopsy is a feasible and safe procedure when testing patients with small ...

October 4, 2006 -- A new study showed that over the past 20 years, greater numbers of small kidney tumors are being detected and surgically excised, yet incidence and mortality rates of kidney cancer ...

When surgeons remove patients' kidney stones, they typically leave behind small stones that appear not to be causing problems. However, a new randomized controlled study has shown that leaving these ...

More than 100,000 Americans are waiting for a kidney transplant, and most will wait years. A study published in May 2026 in npj Biomedical Innovations, a peer-reviewed Nature Portfolio journal, offers ...

January 10, 2008 — Most patients found to have a small kidney tumor, between 2 and 4 cm in size, have the whole kidney removed. However, new findings suggest that for younger patients a partial ...

For patients with early-stage renal cell carcinomas (RCCs) that measure between 3 and 4 centimeters, a procedure that destroys the cancer by freezing—called cryoablation—yields a lower-risk of ...

Current guidelines do not adequately address removal of small, asymptomatic kidney stones, leaving the decision to surgeons. Removing small, asymptomatic kidney stones during endoscopic surgery may ...

Most people don’t give much thought to their kidneys until something goes wrong. These two small organs work around the clock ...