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Table 1 Clinical and pathologic features in 196 patients with renal cell carcinoma.

From: The prognostic relevance of interactions between venous invasion, lymph node involvement and distant metastases in renal cell carcinoma after radical nephrectomy

Features

Clear cell carcinoma

Papillary carcinoma

All subtypesa

No. of cases

172 (87.8)

19 (9.7)

196 (100)

Mean age (years)

66.6

62.4

66.4

Gender

   

n Male/Female

95/77

13/6

110/86 (56.1)

Pathologic tumour size (cm)

   

   Median (range)

7.0 (1.5 – 26.0)

8 (3.0–20.0)

7 (1.5 – 26.0)

Mode of presentation

   

Symptomatic/Incidental

144/28

17/2

165/31 (84.2)

ECOG performance status:

   

   0

109 (63.4)

12 (63.2)

125 (63.8)

   1

52 (30,2)

6 (31.6)

58 (29.6)

   2

11 (6.4)

1 (5.3)

13 (6.6)

ESR

   

< 28 mm

88 (51.2)

10 (52.5)

103 (52.6)

≥ 28 mm

84 (48.8)

9 (47.3)

95 (48.5)

RCC Stage groups (TNM, 2002)

   

   I

52 (30.2)

7 (36,8)

62 (31.6)

   II

24 (14.0)

5 (26,3)

29 (14.8)

   III

48 (27.9)

3 (15.8)

53 (27.0)

   IV

48 (27.9)

4 (21.1)

52 (27.0)

Primary pathological tumour stage (pT, 2002)

   

   pT1a

18 (10.5)

3 (15,8)

22 (11.2)

   pT1b

39 (22.7)

5 (26.3)

46 (23.5)

   pT2

28 (16.3)

6 (31.6)

34 (17.3)

   pT3a

28 (16.3)

0 (0)

29 (14.8)

   pT3b

48 (28.0)

5 (26.3)

54 (27.6)

   pT3c

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

   pT4

11 (6.4)

0 (0)

11 (5.6)

Pathologic stage of lymph nodes (N, 2002)

   

   pN x

141 (82.0)

15 (79.0)

161 (82.1)

   pN 0

14 (8.1)

0 (0)

14 (7.1)

   pN 1

10 (5.8)

2 (11.0)

12 (6.1)

   pN 2

7 (4.1)

2 (11.0)

9 (4.6)

SDM (M, 2002)

   

   M 0

131 (76.1)

15 (79.0)

151 (77.0)

   M + (single)

9 (5.2)

1 (5.3)

10 (5.1)

   M + (multiple)

32 (18.6)

3 (15.8)

35 (17.9)

Venous invasion (VI = pV1+pV2)

   

   pV 0

122 (70.9)

14 (73.7)

140 (71.4)

   pV 1 (renal vein)

36 (20.9)

4 (21.1)

41 (20.9)

   pV 2 (vena cava)

14 (8.1)

1 (5.3)

15 (7.7)

  1. Unless stated otherwise, values shown represent numbers of patients, with percentages in parentheses.
  2. aIncluding chromophobic carcinoma (n = 5)