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Pre-surgical sunitinib treatment enabling nephron-sparing surgery in a patient with renal cell carcinoma in a solitary kidney

A 55-year-old man with a solitary kidney was diagnosed with an 8.5 cm renal cell carcinoma in the right kidney without metastasis. Twenty five months of sunitinib treatment reduced the tumor from 8.5 to 5.5 cm and enabled nephron-sparing surgery. He has no evidence of recurrence 58 months after the...

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Autores principales: Tochigi, Kosuke, Funahashi, Yasuhito, Mori, Aya, Matsukawa, Yoshihisa, Kato, Masashi, Gotoh, Momokazu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nagoya University 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6556451/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31239602
http://dx.doi.org/10.18999/nagjms.81.2.337