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Differential diagnosis of renal oncocytoma and chromophobe renal cell carcinoma using CT features: a central scar-matched retrospective study.

Acta Radiologica 2021 January 27
BACKGROUND: Renal oncocytoma (RO) and chromophobe renal cell carcinoma (chRCC) have a common cellular origin and different clinical management and prognosis.

PURPOSE: To explore the utility of computed tomography (CT) in the differentiation of RO and chRCC.

MATERIAL AND METHODS: Twenty-five patients with RO and 73 patients with chRCC presenting with the central scar were included retrospectively. Two experienced radiologists independently reviewed the CT imaging features, including location, tumor size, relative density ratio, segmental enhancement inversion (SEI), necrosis, and perirenal fascia thickening, among others. Interclass correlation coefficient (ICC, for continuous variables) or Kappa coefficient test (for categorical variables) was used to determine intra-observer and inter-observer bias between the two radiologists.

RESULTS: The inter- and intra-reader reproducibility of the other CT imaging parameters were nearly perfect (>0.81) except for the measurements of fat (0.662). RO differed from chRCC in the cortical or medullary side ( P  = 0.005), relative density ratio ( P  = 0.020), SEI ( P  < 0.001), and necrosis ( P  = 0.045). The logistic regression model showed that location (right kidney), hypo-density on non-enhanced CT, SEI, and perirenal fascia thickening were highly predictive of RO. The combined indicators from logistic regression model were used for ROC analysis. The area under the ROC curve was 0.923 ( P  < 0.001). The sensitivity and specificity of the four factors combined for diagnosing RO were 88% and 86.3%, respectively. The correlation coefficient between necrosis and tumor size in all tumors including both of RO and chRCC was 0.584, indicating a positive correlation ( P  < 0.001).

CONCLUSION: The CT imaging features of location (right kidney), hypo-density on non-enhanced CT, SEI, and perirenal fascia thickening were valuable indicators in distinguishing RO from chRCC.

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