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Urinary Tract Neoplasm

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If you see a word refering to a disease and it ends in -oma what do you know about that disease   it implies that the disease is benign  
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What renal tumor is grossly brown-orange and sometimes has a central scar   Renal oncocytoma  
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This tumor is small (<.5cm) well circumscribed, pale, and found in the middle of the medullary pyramids   Medullary fibroma  
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How is an angiomyolipoma diagnosed   on imaging  
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Why don't we resect every angiomyolipoma   risk of hemorrhage  
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What tumor is grossly yellow with areas of hemorrhage (benign)   Angiomyolipoma  
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Angiomyolipoma is difficult to distinguish from?   renal cell carcinoma of the clear cell type  
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What is an angiomyolipoma composed of microscopically   adipose tissue, smooth muscle and thick walled vessels  
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Angiomyolipomas ave a strong association with?   Tuberous sclerosis (80% of patients with TS have angiomyolipomas)  
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When is mesoblastic nephroma usually picked up?   in 1st 3 months of life  
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what benign tumor is grossly not very distinct and quite variable in size (1cm to >15cm)   Mesoblastic Nephroma  
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What tumor is microscopically composed of fusiform cells differentiating towards fibroblast or myofibroblasts   Mesoblastic Nephroma  
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Nephroblastoma (not benign) is also referred to as?   Wilms Tumor  
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What are the 3 embryonal elements the compose a wilms tumor   Blastema, Stroma, epithelial  
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When and how does Wilms tumor present   large abdominal mass from 1-3 years of age  
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Wilms tumor is very uncommon after what age   10  
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What is the gross appearance and microscopic composition of a Wilms tumor   pale tan on cut surface and microscopically usually a mixture of the 3 embryonal elements  
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what are the congenital syndromes associated with the 5% of Wilms tumors that are not sporadic   WAGR syndrome, Denys-Drash syndrome, or Beckwith-Wiedeman syndrome  
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what gene is responsible for all wilms tumors in the context of WAGR syndrom and 10% of sporadic Wilms Tumors   WT1 tumor suppressor gene  
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what is the most common malignant renal cell tumor in adults   Renal Cell Carcinoma (>11,000 cases / year)  
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about 1/3 of renal cell carcinomas are associated with?   tobacco use  
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what are the syndromes/diseases associated with 5% of inherited Renal Cell Carcinomas   AD renal cell carcinoma syndrome, von Hippel-Lindau disease, hereditary papllary reanl cell carcinoma syndrome  
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Loss of 1 allele of what gene on what chromosome is responsible for the vast majority of sporadic conventional (clear cell) renal cell carcinomas   Loss of one allele of the VHL gene on chromosome 3p  
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what are the 4 main types of renal cell carcinoma   Conventional (clear cell), Papillary, Chromophobe, and Collecting duct carcinoma  
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Prognosis of Clear cell (conventional) renal cell carcinoma is based on?   stage and grade  
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Does papillary renal cell carcinoma have a better or worse prognosis than Conventional clear cell renal carcinoma   for the most part better  
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What renal cell carcinoma stains a gorgeous turquoise color with Hale's colloid iron?   Chromophobe renal cell carcinoma  
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What renal cell carcinoma has a hobnail configuration in a dense stroma   Collecting duct carcinoma  
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what is the most common (70%) renal cell carcinoma   Conventional (Clear cell) type  
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where do Urothelial (transitional cell) carcinomas arise   in the urothlium of the renal pelvis (morphologically identical to the urothelial carcinomas of the bladder)  
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