Nephrolithiasis
is a common entity encountered in general population. Nephrolithiasis refers to
formation and impaction of stones in renal pelvis and calyces. Long standing
stones cause irritation, chronic inflammation and may cause ‘metaplasia’ oflining epithelium.
The metaplasia is commonly of squamous and glandular
epithelium. Metaplastic epithelium may further undergo dysplasia and result in
squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma respectively, both of which are very
rare tumors of kidney. Tumors of the renal pelvis are uncommon, with relative
frequency of transitional cell carcinoma (90%), squamous cell carcinoma (10%)
and adenocarcinoma (1%. Hereby, we report two cases of primary squamous cell carcinoma
of renal parenchyma and adenocarcinoma of renal pelvis. Read more>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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