Histological Characterisation of Small Renal Masses and Incidence of Silent Renal Masses

Table 3

Percentage of histological subtypes of renal cell carcinoma in small renal masses. RCCcc: clear cell renal cell carcinoma; RCCp: papillary renal cell carcinoma; RCCchr: chromophobe renal cell carcinoma; RCCo: other variants of renal cell carcinoma.

	Size	RCCcc		RCCp		RCCchr		RCCo
		𝑛	%	𝑁	%	𝑛	%	𝑛	%
Kunkle, 2007 [17]	Median 2cm	24	64,9	12	32,4	0	0,0	1	2,7
Lebret, 2007 [6]	Median 3cm	41	74,5	10	18,2	4	7,3	0	0,0
Chawla, 2006 [18]	Most <4cm	9	52,9	7	41,2	0	0,0	1	5,9
Pankhurst, 2006 [36]	21 of them <1mm	2	8,0	22	88,0	0	0,0	1	4,0
Schlomer, 2006 [26]	Only <4cm	122	76,7	31	19,5	6	3,8	0	0,0
Vasudevan, 2006 [19]	All <5cm	32	78,0	4	9,8	5	12,2	0	0,0
Neuzillet, 2005 [5]	Mean 37mm	7	58,3	3	25,0	2	16,7	0	0,0
Mindrup, 2005 [20]	Mean 17mm	7	25,0	11	39,3	0	0,0	10	35,7
Kato, 2004 [31]	All <4cm	15	83,3	3	16,7	0	0,0	0	0,0
Frank, 2003 [23]	All <4cm	1970	77,0	436	17,0	125	4,9	28	1,1
Shishikura,1996 [37]	All <2,5cm	84	86,6	3	3,1	0	0,0	10	10,3
Silverman, 1994 [25]	All <3cm	17	63,0	3	11,1	3	11,1	4	14,8
Yamashita, 1992 [38]	All <3cm	26	72,2	0	0,0	7	19,4	3	8,3