Kidney tumors

Kidney tumors - they come from the mesenchyme or from tubular cells


 * 1) benign - angiomyolipoma (may rupture with bleeding), oncocytoma, tumor from juxtaglomerular cells (renin production → hypertension, hypokalaemia),
 * 2) malignant - adenocarcinoma (from proximal tubule cells) - conventional (Grawitz - 70%), papillary
 * 3) metastases - cancer of the lungs, breast, stomach, hemoblastosis.

=Benign kidney tumors=

=Malignant tumors of the kidneys=

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