Surgical complexity and prognostic outcome of small volume renal cell carcinoma with high-level venous tumor thrombus and large volume renal cell carcinoma with low-level thrombus.

CONCLUSIONS: The level of the tumor thrombus was more important than the diameter of the primary kidney tumor in affecting the complexity of surgery. In the same T3 stage, neither the renal tumor diameter nor the tumor thrombus level was an independent risk factor for prognosis.
PMID: 31306232 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Chinese Medical Journal - July 9, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Liu Z, Zhao X, Zhang HX, Li LW, Tang SY, Wang GL, Zhang SD, Wang SM, Ma LL, Tian XJ Tags: Chin Med J (Engl) Source Type: research