Bilateral multifocal renal oncocytoma: case report and review of the literature.
We report an unusual case of bilateral multifocal renal oncocytoma. The patient underwent bilateral enucleation of 4 tumors of the right and 4 tumors of the left kidney. Frozen section and permanent pathological diagnosis was renal oncocytoma for all tumors. Only 5 other cases of bilateral multifocal oncocytoma have been reported in the literature, of which only 2 had pathological confirmation of the diagnosis. It is important to recognize the potential for multicentric bilateral oncocytomas and to attempt a renal sparing approach in these cases. However, we performed enucleation of all large lesions due to the documented coexistence of renal oncocytoma and renal cell carcinoma as separate simultaneous lesions.
Department of Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas.
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D000236:Adenoma / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000473:pathology*; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male