SAN DIEGO, CA USA (UroToday.com) - With rising rates of cross-sectional imaging, incidental renal mass often presents a clinical challenge, especially in the elderly and infirm.
Renal biopsy affords suboptimal accuracy in assessing tumor grade. A high percentage of tumors, even those > 7cm, are low grade. Anatomic tumor complexity can be harnessed for prediction of tumor biology with accuracy that rivals renal biopsy. We sought to examine whether tumor contour “irregularity” - a novel metric of tumor anatomic complexity - has predictive value in differentiating high vs. low grade pathology in large renal masses.
Presented by Serge Ginzburg, Robert Uzzo, Zachary Piotrowski, Brian Egleston, John Walton, Christopher Miller, David Kurz, Awad Ahmed, Jeffrey Tomaszewski, Reza Mehrazin, Anthony Corcoran, Rosalia Viterbo, David Chen, Richard Greenberg, Marc Smaldone, Alexander Kutikov at the American Urological Association (AUA) Annual Meeting - May 4 - 8, 2013 - San Diego Convention Center - San Diego, California USA
Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple University Health System, Philadelphia, PA
