Article
[Hypernephroma at the isthmus of a horseshoe kidney].
Actas urologicas espanolas - 1 Jan 2000
Eres Saez F J, Gonzálvo Pérez V, Colomer González F, Illueca Ferrer E, Zaragoza Orts J
Abstract excerpt
Presentation of a case of neoplasia associated to horseshoe kidney (HK). There is a tendency to suffer neoplasia in HK, hypernephroma being the most commonly seen, followed by renal pelvis tumours and Wilms' tumour with a frequency up to 8 times higher than in normal kidneys. This observation suggests that it should be compulsory to carry out cytogenetic studies in order to detect the 11p13 deletion as a possible...
Topics
- Adenocarcinoma
- Aged
- Biomarkers, Tumor
- Carcinoma, Renal Cell
- Chromosome Deletion
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11
- Genetic Markers
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Incidence
- Kidney