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Renal Cell Carcinoma of Extraordinarily Large Size: A Case Report
Author(s) -
Uchida Junji,
Sato Hisashi,
Kawa Gen,
Koyama Yasuki,
Matsuda Tadashi
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
international journal of urology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.172
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1442-2042
pISSN - 0919-8172
DOI - 10.1111/j.1442-2042.1998.tb00272.x
Subject(s) - medicine , nephrectomy , renal cell carcinoma , carcinoma , urology , survival rate , kidney
One of our patients was a 66‐year‐old woman with a T2 renal cell carcinoma weighing 3900 g. Two years after radical nephrectomy the woman was alive and well. A survey of Japanese medical literature revealed that patients with renal cell carcinomas weighing more than 2000 g have an unexpectedly favorable prognosis with a 5‐year survival rate of 76.9%.