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Transitional cell carcinoma of the kidney
Author(s) -
Hughes Peter D.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1983.tb99361.x
Subject(s) - medicine , carcinoma , kidney , oncology
This paper presents 14 personal patients with transitional cell carcinoma of the kidney who were managedover a period of 13 years. Emphasisis placed on the diagnostic features, the great variety of radiological appearances of this neoplasmand the value of preoperative cytological examination of urine. In three patients the tumour started in the mucosa of peripheral calyces, and did not involve the surgical renal pelvis; this added to the diagnostic difficulty, and led to delay in diagnosis and treatment in one patient. The possibility that this tumour may be more common in Australia because of the high incidence of analgesic nephropathy is raised.