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‘Renal mass’ is today, more often than not, a radiologic diagnosis. The increasing use of abdominal ultrasonography and CT scanning has led to a 5-fold increase in the serendipitous detection of small renal masses over the past 2 decades. This advance has contributed, in part, to a decrease in the incidence of metastatic renal cell carcinoma.
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Gill, I.S. (2001). Cryosurgical Urology. In: Korpan, N.N. (eds) Atlas of Cryosurgery. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6207-1_18
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