title: Squamous cell carcinoma of renal pelvis.
abstract: Squamous carcinoma of the renal pelvis was diagnosed in only 11 of 2,166 renal tumors (0.5%) seen over a twenty-seven-year period. The combination of an insidious onset and a prolonged duration of symptoms (median: 5 months) resulted in all patients having invasive disease at diagnosis. Ten patients died two to twenty-eight months after diagnosis (median survival: 5 months), and only 1 patient is currently alive at nine months. We conclude that the treatment of choice is radical nephrectomy followed by adjuvant chemotherapy.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D007682:Kidney Pelvis / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013997:Time Factors