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Nature Reviews Urology 3, 351–352 (1 July 2006) | doi:10.1038/ncpuro0534

Preoperative renal core biopsy for incidental tumors

Vasudevan A et al. (2006) Incidental renal tumours: the frequency of benign lesions and the role of preoperative core biopsy. BJU Int 97: 946–949 Performing preoperative renal core biopsy of incidentally detected renal masses could avoid unnecessary surgery in up to a third of cases, according to a recent Australian study.