title: Renal cell carcinoma of extraordinarily large size: a case report.
abstract: One of our patients was a 66-year-old woman with a T2 renal cell carcinoma weighing 3900 g. Two years after radical nephrectomy the woman was alive and well. A survey of Japanese medical literature revealed that patients with renal cell carcinomas weighing more than 2000 g have an unexpectedly favorable prognosis with a 5-year survival rate of 76.9%.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Kansai Medical University, Moriguchi, Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Uchida
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kawa
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Koyama
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Matsuda
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D011379:Prognosis