Wm. Niles Wishard

Tumors of the kidney

Abstract The difficulties of the various problems of renal neoplasms are discussed. Embryonal tumors of childhood are touched upon. Rare parenchymal tumors are mentioned by name only. Most frequently encountered parenchymal tumors (“hypernephroma” and adenocarcinoma) are discussed with minimal pathologic consideration, and at some length clinically from point of view of symptoms, diagnosis, treatment (operation and irradiation), prognosis, and our own experiences (including blunders) with thirty patients. Tumors of the renal pelvis are discussed in a similar manner with relatively more emphasis on our own findings in five patients.