Prognostic Impact of Muscular Venous Branch Invasion in Localized Renal Cell Carcinoma Cases
Feifer A, Savage C, Rayala H, Lowrance W, Gotto G, Sprenkle P, Gupta A, Taylor J, Bernstein M, Adeniran A, Tickoo SK, Reuter VE, Russo P. Prognostic Impact of Muscular Venous Branch Invasion in Localized Renal Cell Carcinoma Cases. Journal Of Urology 2010, 185: 37-42. PMID: 21074196, PMCID: PMC3437930, DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2010.08.084.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRenal vein invasionRenal cell carcinoma casesVein invasionInvasion groupCarcinoma casesCareful pathological assessmentMultivariate Cox modelOverall survival rateAmerican Joint CommitteeCancer (AJCC) staging systemRisk of recurrencePrognostic equivalencePrognostic impactTumor characteristicsAdverse prognosisRadical nephrectomyRecurrence rateVascular invasionStaging systemNephrectomy specimenPathological assessmentCox modelPatientsJoint CommitteeSurvival rate