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Review
. 1999 Aug;26(3):637-42, vii.
doi: 10.1016/s0094-0143(05)70204-4.

Grading of renal cell carcinoma

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Grading of renal cell carcinoma

N S Goldstein. Urol Clin North Am. 1999 Aug.

Abstract

Recognition of the prognostic utility of renal cell carcinoma grading is not a recent development. Most pathologists in the United States use the Fuhrman grading system; however, this system is fraught with limitations and controversies. The Fuhrman grading system makes initial sense and seems simple to apply; however, it is hampered by several limitations, the foremost being that there is no consensus on the prognostic significance of the different grades of renal cell carcinoma.

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