Predicting the histology of small renal masses using preoperative dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging, "Beyond the Abstract," by Jae Young Park, MD

BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - The classical roles of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in renal cell carcinoma (RCC) were in surgical planning, detecting the invasion to adjacent structure, and discrimination of bland thrombi and tumor thrombi. Recently the role of MRI in RCC has evolved so that it enables not only the prediction of renal cell carcinoma in small masses, but also the prediction of histology of RCC, preoperatively. CT and sonography have been found to have a limited role in prediction of histology, but dynamic-contrast MRI was found to have a role in predicting histology in a large retrospective study.

This study includes only small RCC in a prospective arm, which is the feature that most differentiates it from previous studies.

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Jae Young Park, MD as part of Beyond the Abstract on UroToday.com. This initiative offers a method of publishing for the professional urology community. Authors are given an opportunity to expand on the circumstances, limitations etc... of their research by referencing the published abstract.

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