Title: The worrying modern scenario of benign pathology after nephrectomy for presumed renal cancer
Authors: Inder, SM; Smyth, L; Davis, NF; Thornhill, J
Abstract: The detection of incidental renal tumours has dramatically increased over the last twenty years as a result of
widespread ultrasound and CT scanning for various other conditions. Renal cancer is now an incidental diagnosis in
over 50% of cases
1
. Survival rates have dramatically improved as a result of early surgical intervention (radical or
partial nephrectomy)
2
. However, despite advances in radiology, benign renal lesions may be indeterminate from renal
cancer. We report our incidence of patients undergoing nephrectomy for clinically diagnosed renal cancer but with
subsequent benign pathology.
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