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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Urology. 2011 Nov;78(5):1089–1094. doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2011.04.035

Table 2.

Surgical Approach Stratified by Nephrometry Score

Complexity
(n=615)
Low
Score 4-6
N (%)
Moderate
Score 7-9
N (%)
High
Score 10-12
N (%)
Radical Nephrectomy
MIS (n=153) 7 (5%) 55 (20%) 91 (44%)
Open (n=55) 1 (1%) 8 (3%) 46 (22%)
Partial Nephrectomy
MIS (n=183) 89 (70%) 82 (29%) 12 (6%)
Open (n= 224) 31 (24%) 136 (48%) 57 (28%)
Total (n=615) 128 (100%) 281 (100%) 206 (100%)
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p-value < 0.001, i.e, as tumor complexity increases, open NSS or radical nephrectomy were more likely to be performed

*

Suffix ‘A’ and ‘P’ were associated with PN (p<0.001)

MIS indicates both robotic and laparoscopic approaches.