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Is there a role for preoperative renal core biopsy?

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boxed-textVasudevan A et al. (2006) Incidental renal tumours: the frequency of benign lesions and the role of preoperative core biopsy. BJU Int 97: 946–949

A high proportion of small renal masses detected on cross-sectional imaging are benign; diagnostic renal biopsy might have a role in this setting

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    S Bruce Malkowicz

  2. Professor of Radiology, the University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA

    Parvati Ramchandani

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Malkowicz, S., Ramchandani, P. Is there a role for preoperative renal core biopsy?. Nat Rev Urol 3, 576–577 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpuro0603

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