Long-term experience with management of renal cell carcinoma involving the inferior vena cava.

Objectives: To evaluate the long-term outcome and prognosis and influence of patient and tumor characteristics and therapeutic interventions on patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) extending to the inferior vena cava (IVC).

Methods: The data of 75 patients (51 men and 24 women; age range 27 to 92 years) with RCC and involvement of the IVC, including 49 without and 26 with metastatic disease, treated between July 1973 and December 1998 were reviewed. The clinical presentation, laboratory and imaging investigations, extent and level of caval involvement, operative details, and estimated blood loss, as well as the postoperative course, morbidity, and actuarial and disease-free survival were analyzed.

Multi-institutional long-term experience with conservative surgery for invasive penile carcinoma.

Purpose: Invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the penis occurs on the glans, prepuce, glans and prepuce, coronal sulcus and shaft. Penile squamous cell carcinoma subsequently invades local structures, corpora cavernosa and the urethra, and metastasizes to the inguinal lymph nodes. Invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the penis usually requires total or partial penectomy.