Multiple Patterns of Perirenal Fat Invasion Are Associated With a Poorer Prognosis Compared With Isolated Invasion: A Proposal for a Revision of T3aN0M0 TNM Staging System

Multiple Patterns of Perirenal Fat Invasion Are Associated With a Poorer Prognosis Compared With Isolated Invasion: A Proposal for a Revision of T3aN0M0 TNM Staging System

Objectives: Currently, renal cell carcinoma (RCC) presenting with perisinus fat invasion (PSI) and/or perinephric fat invasion (PFI) is merged as one entity, pathological T3a (pT3a); however, the combination of PFI and PSI (PFI+PSI) may not be associated with equivalent prognosis compared with eithe...

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Main Authors: Zhixian Wang, Kai Yu, Yunpeng Zhu, Chunxiang Feng, Chang Liu, Shiliang Liu, Jing Wang, Xiaoyong Zeng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Oncology
Subjects:
kidney malignant
TNM
perirenal fat
involvement
prognosis
extrarenal
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fonc.2020.00336/full

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