Open AccessDevelopment and external validation of a pathological nodal staging score for patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma
Author(s) -
Malte Rieken,
Stephen A. Boorjian,
Luis Kluth,
Umberto Capitanio,
Alberto Briganti,
R. Houston Thompson,
Bradley C. Leibovich,
Laura Maria Krabbe,
Vitaly Margulis,
Jay D. Raman,
Mikhail Regelman,
Pierre I. Karakiewicz,
Morgan Rouprêt,
Mohammad Abufaraj,
Beat Foerster,
Mithat Gönen,
Shahrokh F. Shariat
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
world journal of urology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.552
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1433-8726
pISSN - 0724-4983
DOI - 10.1007/s00345-018-2555-5
Subject(s) - medicine , interquartile range , renal cell carcinoma , lymph node , nephrectomy , cohort , stage (stratigraphy) , clear cell renal cell carcinoma , nephrology , lymphadenectomy , pathological staging , pathological , radiology , oncology , urology , kidney , paleontology , biology
To develop and externally validate a model that quantifies the likelihood that a pathologically node-negative patient with clear cell renal cell carcinoma (cRCC) has, indeed, no lymph node metastasis (LNM).