Clinical Imaging
Volume 34, Issue 6 , Pages 441-447, November 2010

Preoperative staging of renal cell carcinoma using magnetic resonance imaging: comparison with pathological staging☆

  • Martina Spero

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +385 1 290 32 55; fax: +385 1 290 32 55.
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  • Boris Brkljacic

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia
    • ,
  • Branko Kolaric

      Affiliations

    • Service for Public Health, Social Medicine and Gerontology, Public Health Institute of Zagrebacka County, Zagreb, Croatia
    • ,
  • Miljenko Marotti

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University Hospital Sestre Milosrdnice, Zagreb, Croatia

Received 28 August 2009; accepted 20 September 2009. published online 16 November 2009.

Abstract 

We have retrospectively assessed the accuracy of our MRI protocol on 1.0-T MRI system for preoperative staging of renal cell carcinoma using the 2002 TNM staging system and pathological staging as the gold standard.

Medical records of 48 patients (mean age, 56.28 years) with 57 renal tumors were reviewed: 52 malignant renal tumors were found; most of the patients were staged T1N0M0. In our study, κ test revealed excellent agreement between all three classes of the TNM staging system.

Keywords: Renal cell carcinoma, Magnetic resonance imaging, TNM staging

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☆ The institution where the work was performed: Department of Radiology, University Hospital Sestre milosrdnice, Vinogradska cesta 32, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia.

PII: S0899-7071(09)00298-8

doi:10.1016/j.clinimag.2009.09.005

Clinical Imaging
Volume 34, Issue 6 , Pages 441-447, November 2010

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