Feasibility and Outcomes of Renal Mass Biopsy for Anatomically Complex Renal Tumors.

Objective: To compare the feasibility and outcomes of renal mass biopsies (RMB) of anatomically complex vs non-complex renal masses.

Methods: Our institutional renal tumor database was queried for patients who underwent RMB between 2005 and 2019 and with available nephrometry score. Complex masses were: (1) small (<2 cm), (2) entirely endophytic (nephrometry E=3), (3) hilar (h) or (4) partially endophytic (E=2) and anterior.

Sporadic Angiomyolipomas Growth Kinetics While on Everolimus: Results of a Phase II Trial.

Purpose: Everolimus decreases tumor volume of renal angiomyolipomas in patients with tuberous sclerosis. No prospective data are available regarding the effect of everolimus on the growth kinetics in patients with sporadic angiomyolipomas. We sought to determine the safety and efficacy of everolimus in the volumetric reduction of sporadic angiomyolipomas.

The Utility of Preoperative Vascular Grading in Patients Undergoing Surgery First for Pancreatic Cancer: Does Radiologic Arterial or Venous Involvement Predict Pathologic Margin Status?

Controversy exists on accurately grading vascular involvement on preoperative imaging for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. We reviewed the association between preoperative imaging and margin status in 137 patients. Radiologists graded venous involvement based on the Ishikawa classification system and arterial involvement based on preoperative imaging.

Defining Novel and Practical Metrics to Assess the Deliverables of Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging/Ultrasound Fusion Prostate Biopsy.

Purpose: Multiparametric magnetic resonance/ultrasound targeted prostate biopsy is touted as a tool to improve prostate cancer care and yet its true clinical usefulness over transrectal ultrasound guided prostate biopsy has not been systematically analyzed. We introduce 2 metrics to better quantify and report the deliverables of targeted biopsy.

Materials And Methods: We reviewed our prospective database of patients who underwent simultaneous multiparametric magnetic resonance/ultrasound targeted prostate biopsy and transrectal ultrasound guided prostate biopsy.