ABSTRACT
Historically, a large number of new renal cancer cases were diagnosed at an advanced stage; however, as a result of new noninvasive imaging modalities, there has been an increase in the number of incidentally detected renal masses. Radical nephrectomy has been the gold standard for the management of renal cancers since its description by Robson et al. (2), but as the transition to diagnosis of asymptomatic smaller renal masses occurred, surgical treatment of renal masses also evolved.
