Renal tumour size measured radiologically before surgery is an unreliable variable for predicting histopathological features: Benign tumours are not necessarily small

BJU International

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1002-1006

  Remzi, Mesut ^a,b   Katzenbeisser, Daniela ^a   Waldert, Matthias ^a   Klingler, Hans Christoph ^a   Susani, Martin ^a   Memarsadeghi, Mazda ^a   Heinz Peer, Gertraud ^a   Haitel, Andrea ^a   Herwig, Ralf ^a   Marberger, Michael ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Angiomyolipoma; Fuhrman classification; Oncocytomas; Renal cell cancer; Small renal masses

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; NEPHRECTOMY; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34247113665     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2007.06758.x     Document Type: Article

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