The Kidney Cancer

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Carcinoma Renal a celulas claras con necrosis tumoral. Invasion capsular, pielocalicial y venosa hiliar.
Carcinoma Renal a celulas claras con área de necrosis tumoral e invasion del tejido adiposo perirrenal

The kidney cancer also known as kidney cancer affects more than 28,000 people in the United States, representing 2.5 percent to 3 percent of all the malignant tumors, being more frequent in men between 50 and 70 years. The malignant tumor classic is the renal cell carcinoma to clear cell. In children the type more frequent is the Wilms’ tumor.

The kidney cancer can be cured if detected early, (small tumor and located) however the symptoms often, there is no evidence until the tumor reaches large dimensions or da metastases (tumor invasion to lymph vessels or blood which vehiculiza these cells to different locations).

The renal cell carcinoma to clear cell can affect any portion of the kidney, usually appears in the poles kidney, dominate the upper pole, tend to be unilateral and unique, rarely bilateral.

Are masses tumor 3cm to 15 cm in diameter, white yellowish, sometimes with areas necroticas hemorrhagic, which have a tendency to invade the renal vein, with an extension of further to inferior vena cava, or by metastasis to lungs more than 50 per cent, bones 33%, liver 18 per cent to 35 per cent, adrenal gland 19%, kidney contralateral 7.5%, soft parts 8% to 36 per cent, central nervous system 1 percent to 8 per cent, have been described metastases in almost all organs and sites of the body, sometimes in locations very rare, as eyes, vagina, parpado, nose, distal end of finger.

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