The Mayo Clinic experience with surgical management, complications and outcome for patients with renal cell carcinoma and venous tumour thrombus

Abstract

The surgical management of RCC with renal venous extension continues to develop. The incidence of early surgical complications and operative death have decreased in recent times with the introduction of improved imaging, surgical monitoring and vascular bypass techniques. There is significantly better cancer-specific survival for patients with renal vein involvement only than those with inferior vena cava involvement.