title: Diagnostic approach to hereditary renal cell carcinoma.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this article is to discuss the histopathologic features, genetics, clinical presentation, and imaging of hereditary renal cancer syndromes.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Hereditary renal cell carcinoma syndromes can be diagnosed with a pattern-based approach focused on the predominant histologic renal cell carcinoma subtype and associated renal and extrarenal features of each syndrome.
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Diagnostic Radiology, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Unit 1473, 1515 Holcombe Blvd, Houston, TX 77030.
authors.forename: Shiva
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: Hyunseon C
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Kang
authors.forename: Dhakshina Moorthy
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Ganeshan
authors.forename: Tharakeswara Kumar
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Bathala
authors.forename: Vikas
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kundra
mesh_terms: D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000235:genetics*; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000235:genetics*; D009154:Mutation; D009386:Neoplastic Syndromes, Hereditary / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000235:genetics*
keywords: chromophobe renal cell carcinoma; clear cell renal cell carcinoma; hereditary renal cell carcinoma syndromes; medullary renal cell carcinoma; papillary renal cell carcinoma; renal cell carcinoma