Contemporary treatment guidelines for the localized renal mass are largely driven by expert opinion and retrospective observational data. Three articles published in 2011 add important information to the existing body of literature, enabling improved objectification of risk and individualization of clinical tradeoff decisions for patients presenting with localized renal tumors.
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Smaldone, M., Uzzo, R. Objectifying risk for localized renal masses. Nat Rev Urol 9, 70–72 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrurol.2011.195
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