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Classification of Renal Cell Carcinoma Based on Morphologic and Cytogenetic Correlations

1995

Typing or classification of renal cell carcinomas — a term introduced by Murphy and Mostofi in 1965 (1) — has been a debatable field since Grawitz (2) introduced the term hypernephroma in 1883. Grawitz postulated a hypernephrogenic origin of renal cancers, whose cells exhibit a light cytoplasm. During recent decades it has become customary to view renal cell carcinoma as a complex entity. Despite support for this idea by the World Health Organization (3) a morphological subtyping of renal cell carcinoma has not been recognized until recently. In 1986 Thoenes et al. (4) proposed a new pathomorphological subtyping of epithelial renal cell tumors, renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and adenoma (RCA), …