Sandbox: DDx Kidney mass

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  • 40 yo patients
  • Abdominal pain
  • Hematuria
  • Polycythemia symptoms
  • Palpable mass
  • Arrangement of monotonous small blue embryonal epithelial cells
  • Acinar, tubular, or sheetlike configuration
  • Psammoma bodies
  • Vimentin, pancytokeratin and cytokeratin-19
  • Hyperattenuating heterogeneous mass on CT
  • Unenhanced large hypovascular mass
  • Frequent foci of hemorrhage and necrosis
  • Calcification


Nonmalignant causes

anaplastic sarcoma clear cell sarcoma mesoblastic nephroma metanephric stromal tumor nephroblastomatosis / nephrogenic rests neuroblastoma oncocytoid carcinoma after neuroblastoma ossifying