A preoperative model to predict pT3 upstaging in clinically localized renal cell carcinoma.

Introduction: Patients upstaged to pT3 after partial nephrectomy (PN) may be at an increased risk of disease progression compared to those patients submitted to radical nephrectomy (RN). We sought to identify preoperative factors predicting pT3 upstaging in localized renal cell carcinoma.

Material And Methods: Patients submitted to nephrectomy for clinically localized (cT1-cT2) renal cell carcinoma between 2011 and 2016 were identified from a prospective registry, those presenting with locally advanced or metastatic disease were excluded.