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Exam 1
Renal Neoplasms
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Veterinary Medicine
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02/14/2017

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What is the most common primary renal neoplasm?
Definition
-renal carcinoma
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What is a renal adenoma?
Definition
-benign, well-circumscribed pale mass in renal cortex of an old animal
-cannot be differentiated from renal carcinomas and lymphomas
-RARE
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What is renal carcinoma?
Definition
-MOST COMMON PRIMARY RENAL TUMOR
-large round pale mass in one pole of kidney in old animals (ESPECIALLY DOGS)
-often have hemorrhage and necrosis
-met to liver and lungs
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What is renal pelvic transitional cell carcinoma?
Definition
-begins in epithleial lining of renal pelvis
-grow into the kidney
-man met to liver, LN, and lungs
Term
What is nephroblastoma?
Definition
-renal germ cell neoplasm in YOUNG ANIMALS
-can be single solitary mass or replace entire kidney
-benign or malignant
Term
What are the most common bladder neoplasms?
Definition
-papilloma
-transitional cell carcinoma
-leiomyoma/leiomyosarcoma
-rhabdomyosarcoma: EMBRYONAL TUMOR
Term
What are bladder papillomas?
Definition
-benign exophytic neoplastic proliferation of transitional epi in bladder or renal pelvis
Term
What is the most common bladder neoplasm? Where does it usually arise?
Definition
-TCC
-arises in trigone but usually grows outward, invades, and mets
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What are embryonal rhabdomyosarcomas of the bladder?
Definition
-RARE, IN YOUNG DOGS
-aka butryoid tumors (like grapes)
w/ skeletal m differentiation
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