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Bilateral nephrectomy and dialysis as an option for patients with bilateral renal cancer
J Black1, C Rotellar, T A Rakowski
1Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C.
Nephron
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
Six patients who underwent bilateral nephrectomy for renal carcinoma were placed on maintenance dialysis; of these, 1 patient had a renal transplant. A 5-year 44% survival of these patients was observed. We feel that radical nephrectomy followed by chronic dialysis is a reasonable alternative and offers a fair prognosis to patients with bilateral renal cancer in which partial nephrectomy is not possible.