Table 9.

Summary of previous studies comparing mean radiological and mean pathological renal tumor sizes.

Author	Year	N	Mean CT size (mm) ‡	Mean Path size (mm)	Mean δ (mm)	P value
Herr[35]	1999	50	N/A	N/A	6.3	0.001
Herr et al[34]	2001	87	34	27	7.4	N/A
Irani[33] †	2001	100	70.0	60.0	10.0	0.005
Yaycioglu[32]	2002	291	54	53	1.0	0.17
Schlomer[31]	2006	133	44.7	41.4	3.3	0.35
Kanofsky[30]	2006	198	51.1	49.2	1.9	N/A
Mistry[29]	2008	106	49.9	47.4	2.5	0.70
Kurta[28]	2008	521	47.9	46.9	1.0	0.02
Alicioglu[27]	2009	35	75.0	62.5	12.5	0.452
Ates[26]	2010	86	63.3	64.3	-1.0	0.342
Choi[25]	2010	175	49.8	45.5	4.3	0.152
Lee[24]	2010	467	45.6	44.9	0.7	0.399
Jeffery	2010	157	58.3	55.2	3.1	0.012

† Used median CT size and median pathological size.

‡ mm = millimetres