title: Reply from authors re: Homayoun Zargar, Riccardo Autorino, Oktay Akca, Jihad H. Kaouk. Anatomic complexity of renal masses and outcomes of minimally invasive partial nephrectomy: do we have an answer? Eur Urol 2014;66:894-6: contact surface area, a novel parameter, may outperform nephrometry systems in predicting complexity of partial nephrectomy surgery.
authors.affiliation: USC Institute of Urology, Catherine and Joseph Aresty Department of Urology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Scott
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Leslie
authors.affiliation: USC Institute of Urology, Catherine and Joseph Aresty Department of Urology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Inderbir
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Gill
authors.affiliation: USC Institute of Urology, Catherine and Joseph Aresty Department of Urology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Andre Luis
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: de Castro Abreu
authors.affiliation: USC Institute of Urology, Catherine and Joseph Aresty Department of Urology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cai
authors.affiliation: USC Institute of Urology, Catherine and Joseph Aresty Department of Urology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Electronic address: mihir.desai@usc.edu.
authors.forename: Mihir
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Desai
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D009392:Nephrectomy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed