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

Table 2

Distribution of histological subtypes of renal cell carcinoma depending on size. RCC: renal cell carcinoma; 𝑁: total number of RCC; 𝑛: number of each subtype; RCCcc: clear cell RCC; RCCp: papillar RCC; RCCchr: chromophobe RCC.

	RCC	RCCcc		RCCp		RCCchr
	𝑁	𝑛	%	𝑁	%	𝑛	%
Schlomer, 2006 [26]
0-1cm	6	5	83,3	0	0,0	1	16,7
1-2cm	38	25	65,8	10	26,3	3	7,9
2-3cm	63	49	77,8	12	19,0	2	3,2
3-4cm	52	43	82,3	9	17,3	0	0,0
4-5cm	28	22	78,6	4	14,3	1	3,6
>5cm	102	81	84,4	11	11,5	4	4,1
Mindrup, 2005 [20]
Media 1,7cm	28	7	35,0	11	68,8	0	0,0
Media 4,7cm	40	13	65,0	5	31,2	3	100,0
Frank, 2003 [23]
0-1cm			25,6		74,4		0,0
1-2cm			59,9		38,6		1,5
2-3cm			70,2		26,0		3,8
3-4cm			80,2		24,5		3,8