Quality of Life and Psychological Distress among Patients with Small Renal Masses.
Liliana VartolomeiAndrei CotrușCamelia StanciuCristian DelceaMarco TozziElena LievoreFelice CrocettoFrancesco Del GiudiceGiuseppe LucarelliMatteo MutoMatteo FerroPublished in: Journal of clinical medicine (2022)
< 0.05, respectively. That was mainly due to lower physical health scores. On the other hand, another study showed that AS patients with a biopsy-proven malignant tumor had a worse psychological distress sub-score (PDSS) compared to patients treated with surgery/ablation after biopsy. (4) Conclusions: It seems that there is an influence on QoL and psychological distress while on AS of SMRs. However, due to the low amount of available data, the impact of AS or active treatment on QoL or psychological distress of patients with small renal masses warrants further investigation.
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