Management of a Renal Mass in a Solitary Kidney: To Freeze or To Cut?

Eur Urol

Department of Urology, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK; Academic Urology Group, Department of Surgery, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Published: February 2018

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