[Surgical treatment of renal carcinoma and thrombosis of the inferior vena cava]

Urologické oddelenie NsP F. D. Roosevelta, Banská Bystrica, Slovenská republika. vbalaz@stonline.sk

INTRODUCTION: In Slovakia every year some 600 renal carcinomas are diagnosed. This number includes 5 to 10% carcinomas with a tumours thrombus is the renal vein or inferior vena cava. The objective of the present work is to describe diagnostic and surgical methods is patients with this disease. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The authors describe the surgical procedures, depending on the level of the tumours thrombus in the inferior vena cava in a group of 22 patients operated at the Urological department of the F. D. Roosevelt Hospital in Banská Bystrica in 1997 to 2001. RESULTS: In all 22 patients the tumours thrombus was removed along with the tumours kidney. In two instances the thrombus reached as far as the right atrium and in 4 patients with a tumours thrombus in a subdiaphragmatic position extracorporeal circulation was used. There was no death in conjunction with the surgical operation. There was one complication caused by haemorrhage which called for surgical revision. Eight patients died during the investigation period as a result of a relapse and generalization of the disease. CONCLUSION: Based on the authors' experience and data in the literature the authors recommend surgery of the kidney with a tumours thrombus of the inferior vena cava as safe treatment in special hospital departments.

PMID: 12197170 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]