Ratio of maximum to minimum tumor diameter can predict the pathology type of renal cell carcinoma before surgery.

CONCLUSIONS: ROD was a novel indicator for preoperatively predicting histologic type in patients with RCC. ROD cutoff values of 1.201 and 1.092 were the most discriminative for ccRCC and papillary RCC, respectively. Moreover, ROD ⩾1.201 was associated with high Fuhrman grade, sarcomatoid features, and tumor necrosis. PMID: 32597325 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Tumori - Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Tumori Source Type: research