Clinicopathologic spectrum of adult nephrectomy specimens – A two year study

Abstract

Introduction :Nephrectomy is indicated in patients with a wide range of conditions such as irreversibly damaged kidney resulting from symptomatic chronic infections, obstruction, calculi, severe traumatic injury, treatment of renovascular hypertension from non correctable renal artery disease or renal cell carcinoma. Aim and Objectives: To review the clinicopathological spectrum of renal lesions in total or partial nephrectomy specimens in a tertiary care hospital in Mangalore and to study the non neoplastic renal parenchyma in tumor nephrectomy specimens. Materials and Methods: The present study was done on 52 nephrectomy specimens received at the