Difference between revisions of "Kidney tumours"

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**RCC = ''partial nephrectomy'', ''nephrectomy'' or ''radical nephrectomy''.
**RCC = ''partial nephrectomy'', ''nephrectomy'' or ''radical nephrectomy''.


=Benign & mimics=
=Benign tumours=
 
==Renal oncocytoma==
==Renal oncocytoma==
===General===
===General===
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Image: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Renal_oncocytoma.jpg Renal oncocytoma with central scar (wikipedia.org)].
Image: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Renal_oncocytoma.jpg Renal oncocytoma with central scar (wikipedia.org)].


===Histology===
===Microscopic===
Features:
Features:
*Eosinophilic cytoplasm - slightly granular '''key feature'''.
*Eosinophilic cytoplasm - slightly granular '''key feature'''.
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Ki-67 can be used to help distinguish btw 'em -- epithelioid variant Ki-67 +ve.<ref name=pmid18839327>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Ooi | first1 = SM. | last2 = Vivian | first2 = JB. | last3 = Cohen | first3 = RJ. | title = The use of the Ki-67 marker in the pathological diagnosis of the epithelioid variant of renal angiomyolipoma. | journal = Int Urol Nephrol | volume = 41 | issue = 3 | pages = 559-65 | month =  | year = 2009 | doi = 10.1007/s11255-008-9473-1 | PMID = 18839327 }}</ref>
Ki-67 can be used to help distinguish btw 'em -- epithelioid variant Ki-67 +ve.<ref name=pmid18839327>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Ooi | first1 = SM. | last2 = Vivian | first2 = JB. | last3 = Cohen | first3 = RJ. | title = The use of the Ki-67 marker in the pathological diagnosis of the epithelioid variant of renal angiomyolipoma. | journal = Int Urol Nephrol | volume = 41 | issue = 3 | pages = 559-65 | month =  | year = 2009 | doi = 10.1007/s11255-008-9473-1 | PMID = 18839327 }}</ref>


=Mimics=
==Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis==
==Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis==
===General===
===General===
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