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Table 5 Mean radiological and pathological tumor size (mm) by histological subtype

From: Discrepancy between radiological and pathological size of renal masses

Histology

N

Mean CT size (SD) †

Mean pathological size (SD)

Mean difference (95% CI) ‡

P value

Conventional

126

60.37 (29.79)

56.56 (31.06)

3.82 (1.25 to 6.39)

0.004

Papillary

16

43.44 (22.82)

43.75 (20.12)

-0.31 (-6.46 to 5.84)

0.915

Chromophobe

11

52.82 (29.12)

53.00 (38.21)

-0.18 (-16.94 to 16.57)

0.981

Other

4

68.25 (19.97)

64.25 (18.95)

4.00 (-35.21 to 43.21)

0.767

  1. † SD = standard deviation
  2. ‡ CI = confidence interval