Collecting duct renal cell carcinoma

Collecting duct renal cell carcinoma 

Updated: 05/05/2021

© Jun Wang, MD, PhD

General features

• Aggressive
• Likely from distal collecting ducts
• More common in male, mean age 55
• Commonly metastases at presentation to regional lymph nodes, bone, adrenal glands, lung, skin

Pathological features

• Infiltrative tumor in medulla
• Irregular glands lined by high grade cells
• Numerous mitosis
• Marked fibrosis

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