Malignancy associated with horseshoe kidney.
A compilation of the reported cases of cancer in horseshoe kidney from 1895 to 1975 is presented along with a comparison of the incidence of the various types of tumor involved from 1895 to 1966 and 1966 to 1975. An additional case of hypernephroma is added to the literature for a total of 111 cases reported to date. The increase incidence of both carcinoma of the renal pelvis and nephroblastoma is discussed.
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000002:abnormalities*; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D007682:Kidney Pelvis / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged