title: Inaccuracies in angiographic staging of renal cell carcinoma.
abstract: In 54 patients with renal cell carcinoma, the angiographic T category of the International Union Against Cancer (UICC) clasification correlated with the histopathologic (P) staging in only 44.4 per cent. Staging of the primary lesion in renal cell carcinoma must be based on the P category and not the angiographic appearances.
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D000792:Angiography; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D009367:Neoplasm Staging / Q000379:methods*