Items tagged “renal cell carcinoma”
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Renal cell carcinoma
Renal cell carcinomas (RCC) (historically also known as hypernephroma or Grawitz tumor) are primary malignant adenocarcinomas derived from the renal tubular epithelium and are the most common malignant renal tumor. They usually occur in 50-70-year old patients and macroscopic hematuria occurs in...
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Papillary renal cell carcinoma
Papillary renal cell carcinomas (pRCC) are the second most common histological subtype of renal cell carcinoma (RCC).
Epidemiology
This subtype may account 13-20% of all renal cell cancer 1. This subtype is also the most common in the renal transplant population 11. There is slightly increased...
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Sarcomatoid renal cell carcinoma
Sarcomatoid renal cell carcinomas (sRCC) may develop when one of the more common histologic subtypes of renal cell carcinoma degenerates into a sarcoma.
On imaging, they are generally large masses, with irregular contours, and malignant-appearing, but do not have specific imaging features.
Epi...
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Chromophobe renal cell carcinoma
Chromophobe renal cell carcinoma is one of the less common subtypes of renal cell carcinoma (RCC).
Epidemiology
This is the least common major subtype of RCC, occurring 5% of the time 1. Similar incidence in men and women. There is an association with Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome 4.
Pathology
Thi...