Kidney Renal Cell Carcinoma Gross. Renal cell carcinoma rcc is a type of kidney cancer. Renal cell carcinoma or rcc is also called hypernephroma adenocarcinoma of renal cells or renal or kidney cancer.
Often rcc has no initial symptoms. Renal cell carcinomas rcc historically also known as hypernephroma or grawitz tumor are primary malignant adenocarcinomas derived from the renal tubular epithelium and are the most common malignant renal tumor they usually occur in 50 70 year old patients and macroscopic hematuria occurs in 60 of the cases. Renal cell carcinoma rcc represents 90 of all kidney cancers with most patients being diagnosed with clear cell histology.
Renal cell carcinoma rcc is a kidney cancer that originates in the lining of the proximal convoluted tubule a part of the very small tubes in the kidney that transport primary urine rcc is the most common type of kidney cancer in adults responsible for approximately 90 95 of cases.
Much of the kidney has been replaced by gray and yellow tumor tissue. Renal cell carcinoma is responsible for about 90 percent of kidney cancers in adults and appears to arise from both genetic and environmental factors. Gross pathology of bisected kidney showing large renal cell carcinoma. Rcc occurrence shows a male predomiance over women with a ratio of 1 5 1.