Tubulocystic Renal Cell Carcinoma: A Rare Renal Tumor

Abstract

Tubulocystic renal cell carcinoma of the kidney is a rare entity with less than one hundred cases reported so far. It was previously considered to have some similarities to various other renal cancers although this tumor has distinct macroscopic, microscopic and immuno-histochemical features. It is now a well-established entity in renal neoplastic pathology and has been recognized as a distinct entity in the 2012 Vancouver classification of renal tumors. This review aims to give an overview of tubulocystic renal cell carcinoma after extensive literature search using PubMed and CrossRef.

Keywords

• differential diagnosis
• rare renal tumor
• tubulocystic renal cell carcinoma
• tubulocystic carcinoma