What proportion of suspicious-looking renal masses are actually benign?
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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe boxed-textKutikov A _ et al_. (2006) Incidence of benign pathologic findings at partial nephrectomy for solitary renal mass presumed to be
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Director of CT Scanning in the Department of Radiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, SG Silverman is the Director of Abdominal Imaging and Intervention, Boston, MA, USA., Stuart G
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for Galil Medical. RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE Silverman, S. What proportion of suspicious-looking renal masses are actually
benign?. _Nat Rev Urol_ 4, 360–361 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpuro0807 Download citation * Received: 03 January 2007 * Accepted: 23 March 2007 * Published: 08 May 2007 * Issue Date:
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