Basic Features of a Renal Mass

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nsensus CT Reporting Standards for Renal Masse

National Survey of Academic Radiologists and Urologis Matthew S. Davenport MD FSAR FSCBTMR University of Michigan Health System

Disclosures

Paid consultant to FDA (MIDAC) & NCI Book contracts with Wolters Kluwer and Elsevier

Background

There is a general sentiment that some features (e.g. fat) a essential to report when describing an incidental renal mass The importance of other features (e.g. NEPHROMETRY) is le clear, and radiologists and urologists may disagree Reporting extraneous features takes time What do radiologists and urologists think should be included

Data Source

35 question survey created through iterative process by the Disease-Focused Panel (DFP) on renal cell carcinoma

–  Sent to 9 tertiary care academic institutions –  N=95 radiologists, N=59 urologists

Overall, there was a 76% response rate

–  82% of Radiologists (78/95) –  66% of Urologists (39/59)

Basic Features

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Item of interest

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