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
sic Features of a Renal Mass Item 1 Item 2 Item 3 Item 4