Significance of Intratumoral Fibrosis in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma

• Main Authors: Jae Won Joung (Author), Hoon Kyu Oh (Author), Sun Jae Lee (Author), Young Ah Kim (Author), Hyun Jin Jung (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Korean Society of Pathologists & the Korean Society for Cytopathology, 2018-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background Intratumoral fibrosis (ITF) is a frequent histologic finding in solid organ tumors. Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is a highly vascularized tumor with different shapes and degrees of ITF and inflammation. ITF is a poor prognostic factor, especially in breast cancer, and is related to intratum...