who is the leading nephrologist in the country?

    
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Posted by HFHS M.D.-MS on March 14, 1998 at 01:32:46:

In Reply to: who is the leading nephrologist in the country? posted by Patricia Raybould on March 13, 1998 at 10:39:24:

: Please help.  My wife has just been diagnosed with a 1 cm. lesion on her right kidney that we are told is renal cell cardcinoma.  the diagnosis was made by hemauturia of a moderate amount, and a CT.  we are trying to determine who the leadng nephrologist in the country/world would be.
  also who is the most highly regarded surgeon for this procedure assuming that we only want a partial nephrectomy?
                                                    thank you
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Dear Patricia
Thanks for your questions.
Nephrologists deal with issues of kidney function not structure. Kidney lesions such as you describe are treated by urologists. A nephrologist