%0 Journal Article %T Inflammatory lymphadenopathy in renal cell carcinoma: prognostic tool? %A Ashwani Kumar Mishra %A Hemant Goel %A Purnima Malhotra %J Archive of "Annals of Translational Medicine". %D 2019 %R 10.21037/atm.2019.03.47 %X Significant lymphadenopathy in renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is often considered an important poor prognostic factor (1). A recent study by Muttin et al. (2) published in the World Journal of Urology attempts to refute this notion. As a pathologist, I am mighty pleased when he concludes that ˇ°a radiological suspicion of nodal metastases should not be considered as a poor prognostic factor, at least not until confirmation of nodal involvement at final pathologyˇ± %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6545305/