Zhai T, et al. - In patients treated with unilateral laparoscopic radical nephrectomy for stage I–III renal cancer, the association between CT measures of visceral obesity [visceral fat area (VFA)>100 cm², BMI ≥ 28 kg/m²] and short-term postoperative outcomes was examined. In this retrospective study, elevated visceral obesity by VFA was shown to be related to increased surgical complexity, postoperative morbidity, postoperative stay and hospitalization expenses for renal clear cell carcinoma (RCCC) patients. Moreover, this may provide a better assessment of renal cancer outcome than BMI. VFA may be a useful index for the evaluation and calculation of RCCC aggressiveness.