Small Renal Masses: Incidental Diagnosis, Clinical Symptoms, and Prognostic Factors

Table 1

Small RCC prognosis factors.

Better prognosis	Worse prognostic
Incidental	Symptoms
Small size <3 cm	Size > 3 cm
T1	T2 and >
Low grade	High grade
No upper tract invasion	Upper tract invasion
No lymph nodes	Necrosis
No necrosis	Lymph nodes
No vascular invasion	Vascular invasion
Negative biological markers	Positive biological markers
Papillary or chromophobe pathology (¿)	Sarcomatoid component
Zero median grown rate	Grown rate > 0.31 cm yearly
Option to NSS	No option to NSS