title: Prognostic significance of symptoms and findings in renal adenocarcinoma.
abstract: The occurrence of different symptoms and signs and their relation to prognosis were studied in a series of 324 cases of renal adenocarcinoma. The most common symptoms were gross haematuria and loss of weight, but 17% of the patients were asymptomatic at presentation. The incidence of asymptomatic patients had doubled in ten years. Of the symptoms and signs studied in a multivariate survival analysis, only erythrocyte sedimentation rate had prognostic significance independently of other factors.
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001799:Blood Sedimentation; D001835:Body Weight; D005260:Female; D006417:Hematuria / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis