Background
Methods
Patients’ characteristics
Clinico-pathological parameters | Number of patients | % |
---|---|---|
Total | 109 | 100 |
Age (mean; ± Standard deviation) | 63 ± 11.9 | |
male | 70 | 64.2 |
female | 39 | 35.8 |
Side | ||
left | 49 | 45 |
right | 60 | 55 |
Surgery | ||
Partial nephrectomy | 27 | 24.8 |
Radical nephrectomy | 82 | 75.2 |
Histological subtypes | ||
clear cell | 78 | 71.6 |
papillary | 22 | 20.2 |
chromophobe | 2 | 1.8 |
other/ not classified | 7 | 6.4 |
pT1a | 34 | 31.2 |
pT1b | 30 | 27.5 |
pT2 | 5 | 4.6 |
pT3a | 13 | 11.9 |
pT3b/c | 27 | 24.8 |
pT4 | 0 | 0 |
Synchronous Lymph nodes metastasis | 11 | 10.1 |
Synchronous distant metastasis | 23 | 21.1 |
Advanced disease (pT3-4 and/or N/M+) | 48 | 44.0 |
G1 | 18 | 16.5 |
G1-2 | 15 | 13.8 |
G2 | 58 | 53.2 |
G2-3 | 7 | 6.4 |
G3 | 11 | 10.1 |
Variable | All patients1
| IHC-TMA1
| IF-TMA1
| |
---|---|---|---|---|
n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | ||
Total
| 33 (100) | 16 (48) | 17 (52) | |
Gender
| Female | 13 (39) | 7 (43) | 6 (35) |
Male | 20 (61) | 9 (57) | 11 (65) | |
Age (mean)
| 59.03 | 61.7 | 56 | |
pT stage
| T1 | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
T2 | 16 (48) | 7 (43) | 9 (53) | |
T3 | 15 (45) | 9 (57) | 6 (35) | |
T4 | 2 (6) | 0 (0) | 2 (12) | |
Lymph node
| N0 | 12 (36) | 4 (25) | 8 (47) |
N1 | 3 (9) | 3 (18) | 0 (0) | |
Nx | 18 (55) | 9 (56) | 9 (53) | |
Metastasis
| M0 | 23 (69) | 11 (69) | 12 (70) |
M1 | 8 (24) | 4 (25) | 4 (24) | |
Mx | 2 (7) | 1 (6) | 1 (6) | |
Tumor grade
| G1 | 4 (12) | 4 (25) | 0 (0) |
G2 | 25 (76) | 10 (62) | 15 (88) | |
G3 | 3 (9) | 1 (6) | 2 (12) | |
G4 | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | |
Unknown | 1 (3) | 1 (6) | 0 (0) |