History: 50 year old male with new onset left flank pain and hematuria. No prior past medical history. This patient went on to have a radical left nephrectomy and the tumor pathology was clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC), the most common type of RCC.
History: 50 year old male with new onset left flank pain and hematuria. No prior past medical history.
This patient went on to have a radical left nephrectomy and the tumor pathology was clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC), the most common type of RCC.
[…] This patient had complete collapse of the left lung secondary to a large left hilar mass from metastatic renal cell carcinoma. […]
[…] would include cystic malignant neoplasms of the kidney such as cystic Wilm’s Tumor or cystic renal cell carcinoma, as well as multicystic dysplastic kidney and mesoblastic nephroma in neonates. A renal abscess is […]
[…] This is a case of xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis, which is defined as a chronic infection of the kidney and surrounding structures, destruction of renal parenchyma, and infiltration with lipid-laden macrophages. It is the lipid-laden macrophages which characteristically give this entity its name “xanthogranulomatous.” Xanthos is the Greek word for yellow, which this entity looks like on gross specimens in the pathology lab. Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis is usually associated with large staghorn calculi and is difficult to distinguish from other neoplasms such as renal cell carcinoma. […]
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