Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of patients with renal cell adenocarcinoma treated with radical nephrectomy

Background: there is a high incidence of cases with renal carcinoma in Las Tunas. Its curative treatment is surgery with exeresis of the tumor or of the affected kidney.Objective: to characterize clinical and epidemiological variables of patients with renal cell carcinoma treated with radical nephrectomy at the department of urology of the “Dr. Ernesto Guevara de la Serna” General Teaching Hospital of Las Tunas, from January 2016 to December 2018.Methods: a cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out at the aforementioned institution and during the period herein declared. The study population was made up of the 67 patients between 30 and 80 years of age, with a diagnosis of renal cell carcinoma and treated with radical nephrectomy.Results: there was a predominance of male patients, 64,2 %, of the 51 to 60 age group, 50,7 % and of white skin, 58,2 %. Smoking was present in 41,7 % of the studied cases. 37,3 % and 34,3 % presented lumbar pain and hematuria, respectively. In 58,2 % of the cases the right kidney was the most affected one. The main complications were intense pain, present in 80 %, hemorrhage in 46,5 % and infection in the surgical wound in 23,4 %. There was a prevalence of the anterior way in open-sky surgical technique, in 68 %.Conclusions: the variables in patients with renal cell adenocarcinoma treated with radical nephrectomy were characterized.