Dr. Roach: Orange-sized mass in kidney turns out to be an oncocytoma

Dear A.K.: Ogilvie syndrome is acute pseudo-obstruction of the colon. It is considered pseudo-obstruction because it looks ...
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Mass in kidney turns out to be oncocytoma

I had a routine ultrasound to check my kidneys because my father (who is 80) has kidney disease, and his urologist said that it is genetic and that my sister and I should get a baseline screening. I ...
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Study validates radiographic measure to differentiate renal oncocytoma, chromophobe renal cell carcinoma tumors

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . He added, “This approach could thus spare thousands of patients with benign renal tumors from undergoing ...

Your Good Health: Orange-sized mass in kidney turns out to be an oncocytoma

An oncocytoma is a kidney tumour that looks very much like a typical kidney cancer but normally acts like a benign tumour.
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Development of a DNA Methylation–Based Diagnostic Signature to Distinguish Benign Oncocytoma From Renal Cell Carcinoma

Unsupervised clustering of Stanford and preexisting RCC data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) revealed that of all RCC subtypes, oncocytoma is most similar to chRCC. Unexpectedly, however, ...
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Parafibromin as a new immunohistochemistry staining to improve pathologic diagnosis of renal oncocytoma: Analysis of 225 renal tumors.

Long-term therapy with sunitinib and sorafenib in patients with metastasizing renal cell carcinoma. Background: Chromophobe renal cell carcinoma (chRCC) and renal oncocytoma (Onc) are two distinct but ...
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Early loss of mitochondrial complex I and rewiring of glutathione metabolism in renal oncocytoma

Renal oncocytomas are benign tumors characterized by a marked accumulation of mitochondria. We report a combined exome, transcriptome, and metabolome analysis of these tumors. Joint analysis of the ...
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Growth Rates of Oncocytoma and Chromophobe Renal Cell Carcinoma Compared

HealthDay News — The majority of oncocytic renal neoplasms will grow with time, according to a study published in the March issue of The Journal of Urology. Patrick O. Richard, MD, from the Princess ...
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ARPP protein is selectively expressed in renal oncocytoma, but rarely in renal cell carcinomas

We have recently isolated a gene, Ankyrin-repeated protein with a proline-rich region (ARPP), that is highly expressed in the skeletal and cardiac muscle. Our previous immunohistochemical analysis ...
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Interphase cytogenetic analysis with centromeric probes for chromosomes 1, 2, 6, 10, and 17 in 11 tumors from a patient with bilateral renal oncocytosis

Renal oncocytosis is characterized by the presence of multiple tumors with oncocytic features, often associated with small clusters of tubule-like structures with oncocytic change. The morphologic ...
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What are the Causes And Risk Factors of Renal Cell Carcinoma?

What are the Causes and Risk Factors of Renal Cell Carcinoma? Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) can occur sporadically or in a hereditary fashion. In Europe, the incidence has gone down mainly because of the ...