Vamour N, Gasmi A, Leroy X, et al. - Researchers aimed at ascertaining the impact of positive vascular margins (PVMs) following surgical resection of non-metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) with inferior vena cava (IVC) tumor thrombus.

• Outcomes of a total of 209 patients, who underwent radical nephrectomy with the removal of IVC tumor thrombus for RCC, were analyzed.

• PVMs were identified in 49 (23%) patients.

• Per outcomes, risk of local recurrence appeared higher in patients with RCC after nephrectomy with thrombectomy in correlation with the presence of PVMs.

• However, the risk of distant metastasis or death appeared unaffected by the presence of PVMs.