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Renal Cell Carcinoma

Some Renal Grafts are Tumorous at Donation

Published in Blood Weekly, August 3rd, 2000

Kidney allografts should be examined prior to transplantation for the presence of renal cell carcinoma (RCC), researchers from Germany recommend.

"Numerous studies have reported an increasing prevalence of small RCC," reported Heiko Wunderlich and colleagues from Freidrich-Schiller University, Germany. "De novo renal cell carcinoma in a renal allograft is a rare event and has special implications in renal transplant recipients.

"The objective of this study was to retrospectively evaluate the prevalence of renal cell carcinoma in renal graft recipients and donors and to determine a procedure in cases with newly detected small renal tumors at the time...

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