Table 1 Clinical and pathological characteristics of the patients with pT3a renal cell carcinoma according to cause of pathologic T3a.

From: Accurate Risk Assessment of Patients with Pathologic T3aN0M0 Renal Cell Carcinoma

Variables

Total

EFI only

RVI only

EFI + RVI

p-value

No. patients

211

124

40

47

 

Median age (year)(IQR)

60.0 (52–69)

58.5 (50.0–69.0)

62.8 (54.0–71.0)

62.7 (56.0–69.0)

0.041

Female (%)

53 (25.1)

30 (24.2)

13 (32.5)

10 (21.3)

0.509

Median body mass index (kg/m2)(IQR)

23.9 (22.3–26.2)

24.4 (22.6–26.3)

24.5 (22.1–26.3)

24.0 (21.7–26.2)

0.690

ECOG performance status (%)

    

0.475

   0–1

201 (95.3)

120 (96.8)

38 (95.0)

44 (93.6)

   2–3

10 (4.7)

4 (3.2)

2 (5.0)

3 (6.4)

Partial nephrectomy (%)

26 (12.3)

22 (17.7)

1 (2.5)

3 (6.3)

0.012

Median pathologic tumor diameter (cm)(IQR)

6.8 (4.9–9.4)

6.5 (4.5–9.5)

7.2 (4.5–9.1)

7.0 (5.0–9.4)

0.600

Histological type (%)

    

0.489

   Clear cell

172 (81.5)

100 (80.6)

34 (85.0)

38 (80.9)

   Papillary

15 (7.1)

10 (8.1)

1 (2.5)

4 (8.5)

   Chromophobe

18 (8.5)

11 (8.9)

3 (7.5)

4 (8.5)

   Others

6 (2.9)

3 (2.4)

2 (5.0)

1 (2.1)

Fuhrman grade (%)

    

0.195

   1–2

45 (20.3)

31 (25.0)

4 (10.0)

9 (19.1)

   3–4

166 (78.7)

93 (75.0)

36 (90.0)

38 (80.9)

Positive surgical margin (%)

4 (1.9)

2 (1.6)

1 (2.5)

1 (2.1)

0.939

Capsular invasion (%)

152 (72.0)

102 (82.3)

12 (30.0)

38 (80.9)

<0.001

Necrosis (%)

103 (48.8)

59 (47.6)

18 (45.0)

26 (55.3)

0.541

Angiolymphatic invasion (%)

33 (15.6)

10 (8.1)

9 (22.5)

14 (29.8)

0.001

Perineural invasion (%)

6 (2.8)

3 (2.4)

1 (2.5)

2 (4.3)

0.804

Sarcomatoid differentiaton (%)

26 (12.3)

11 (8.9)

3 (7.5)

12 (25.5)

0.007

  1. IQR; interquartile range, ECOG; Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group, EFI; isolated extracapsular fat invasion, RVI; isolated renal venous invasion.