The Correlation of Clinicopathological Features With the Status of Surgical Margins in Renal Cell Cancer Patients Following Nephron-Sparing Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

ABSTRACT: Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the correlation of various clinicopathological variables with positive surgical margins (PSMs) in renal cell cancer (RCC) patients after nephron-sparing surgery (NSS). Methods: A systematic search of PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, and China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) was performed to identify studies that compared PSMs with negative surgical margins (NSMs) and were published up to December 2018. Outcomes of interest included perioperative and postoperative variables, and the data were pooled by odds ratios (ORs)/standard mean differences (SMD) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) to evaluate the strength of such associations. STATA 12.0 software was used for all statistical analyses. Results: Based on the

SUBMITTER: Zhang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6657739 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature