Are ki-67 and coagulative tumor necrosis independent predictors of poor outcome for patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma and not surrogates for each other?
Prognostic information conveyed by Ki-67 and coagulative tumor necrosis are not interchangeable. Thus, Ki-67 and coagulative tumor necrosis should not be treated as surrogates for one another and both of these features should be evaluated when generating outcome predictions for patients with ccRCC.
A marked decrease in MCD was found in patients presenting with congestive heart failure as the result of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy and a depressed CFR.