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Urinary: Renal Masses Flashcards

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What is considered “enhancing” for a renal mass?

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An increase of at least 15 HU

Note: Increase of 10 HU or less is within technical limits (pseudoenhancement).

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What type of bone metastases occur in renal cell carcinoma?

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Lytic (always)

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Enhancing renal mass…

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RCC until proven otherwise

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Renal mass containing calcifications and macroscopic fat…

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RCC until proven otherwise

Note: Angiomyolipomas should never have calcifications.

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What are the major subtypes of renal cell carcinoma?

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  • Clear cell (most common)
  • Papillary
  • Medullary
  • Chromophobe
  • Translocation (most common in kids)
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Which renal cell carcinoma subtype is associated with Von Hippel Lindau?

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Clear cell

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How can you differentiate clear cell from papillary renal cell carcinoma on imaging?

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Clear cell will enhance equal to cortex on the corticomedullary phase

Papillary is less vascular and will be darker than cortex on the corticomedullary phase

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Differential for a T2 dark renal mass

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  • Papillary RCC
  • Lipid-poor angiomyolipoma
  • Hemorrhagic cyst
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What is the most common RCC subtype in a transplanted kidney?

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Papillary

Note: Transplanted kidneys have a 6x greater risk of primary renal malignancy.

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Which RCC subtype is more aggressive: clear cell or papillary?

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Clear cell is more aggressive

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Which RCC subtype is associated with sickle cell trait?

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Medullary

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Medullary RCC is more common in what pt population?

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Younger pts (especially with sickle cell trait)

Note: This is a highly aggressive tumor and has usually metastasized by the time of diagnosis.

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Which RCC subtype is associated with Birt Hogg Dube?

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Chromophobe

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What is the most common RCC subtype?

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Clear cell

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What is the most common RCC subtype in children?

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Translocation

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Which RCC subtype is associated with a history of prior cytotoxic chemotherapy?

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Translocation

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Stage 1 RCC

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<7 cm and limited to the kidney

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Stage 2 RCC

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> 7 cm, but limited to the kidney

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Stage 3 RCC

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Still limited by Gerota’s fascia, but:

  • Renal vein invasion
  • IVC invasion
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Stage 4 RCC

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Extension beyond Gerota’s fascia OR involving the ipsilateral adrenal gland

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What is the most common metastatic tumor to invade/infiltrate the kidney?

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Renal lymphoma

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Classic imaging appearance of renal lymphoma

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Bilaterally enlarged kidneys with small, hypodense cortically-based solid nodules/masses and associated lymphadenopathy

Note: Renal lymphoma can pretty much look like anything and is a solitary mass 25% of the time.

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Think renal lymphoma

Note: Bilateral bulky kidneys.

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What is the most common visceral organ involved in leukemia?

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The kidneys

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25
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What is the most common benign tumor of the kidney?

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Angiomyolipoma

26
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Angiomyolipomas are associated with…

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Tuberous sclerosis

27
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Complications of angiomyolipomas

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Hemorrhage (if they get large enough, generally >4 cm)

Note: Hemorrhage seems to be more common in pregnancy.

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Angiomyolipoma with calcifications…

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Does not happen, be worried about RCC

29
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Which RCC subtype is most likely to have macroscopic fat?

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Clear cell

30
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What percentage of angiomyolipomas are lipid-poor?

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5%

Note: These are best identified on MRI for being T2 dark.

31
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What is the best way to diagnose a lipid poor angiomyolipoma

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MRI showing that it is T2 dark

Note: Signal dropout between in and out of phase images (microscopic fat) is more common in clear cell RCC than lipid-poor AMLs.

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What is the second most common benign renal tumor?

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Oncocytoma

33
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What is the classic imaging feature of an oncocytoma on CT/MRI?

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Central scar

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What is the classic imaging feature of an oncocytoma on ultrasound?

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“spoke wheel” vascular pattern

35
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What is the classic imaging appearance of an oncocytoma on PET imaging?

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The oncocytoma will be hotter than the surrounding renal cortex

Note: RCCs are usually colder than renal cortex.

36
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Treatment for oncocytoma

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Usually surgical excision (must be treated as RCC because there is no way to differentiate on imaging alone)

Note: Even on biopsy, both can have oncocytic features.

37
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Renal mass with a central scar…

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Most likely to be an oncocytoma; however, RCCs can have a central scar also (so these are almost always surgically resected)

Note: If you are highly suspecting oncocytoma (e.g. mass if hotter than cortex on PET), then they may chose to do a renal-sparing partial nephrectomy rather than a total nephrectomy.

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What syndrome is associated with bilateral renal oncocytomas?

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Birt-Hogg-Dube syndrome

39
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Think multilocular cystic nephroma

Note: Characterized by an absence of solid component or necrosis.

40
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Multicystic renal lesion that protrudes into the renal pelvis…

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Multilocular cystic nephroma

41
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Which part of the pancreas is not retroperitoneal?

42
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Is the rectum a retroperitoneal structure?

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The upper 2/3 is retroperitoneal, the lower 1/3 is subperitoneal

43
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What percentage of nonvisceral primary retroperitoneal neoplasms are malignant?

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75%

Note: This is why retroperitoneal masses are highly suspicious.

44
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Incomplete bladder emptying

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Retroperitoneal lipomatosis (overgrowth of benign fat that classically pushes the bladder anteriorly)

45
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What is the most common nonvisceral primary malignancy of the retroperitoneum?

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Liposarcoma

46
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Does liposarcoma have a high recurrence rate?

47
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Fat-containing retroperitoneal mass…

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Think liposarcoma

Note: Do not call fat containing lesions in the retroperitoneum lipomas, even if small and simple-appearing. Always be concerned about liposarcomas in the retroperitoneum.

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Massive fat-containing lesion in the retroperitoneum that may or may nor arise from the kidney and has calcifications…

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Think liposarcoma

Note: If you are confident it originated from the kidney, then be concerned about RCC.

49
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Heterogeneous, enhancing mass in the retroperitoneum with adjacent osseous erosion in a pediatric pt…

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Think rhabdomyosarcoma (most common soft tissue sarcoma in children)

50
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Think retroperitoneal liposarcoma

Note: Fat containing retroperitoneal mass.

51
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Pediatric pt

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Think rhabdomyosarcoma

52
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Retroperitoneal soft tissue masses in a pt with myelofibrosis…

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Think extra-medullary hepatopoiesis

53
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What history should make you think of possible extra-medullary hematopoiesis when you see retroperitoneal soft tissue masses?

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  • Hemoglobinopathies (e.g. sickle cell, thalassemia, spherocytosis, etc.)
  • Myelofibrosis
  • Leukemia
54
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What is the most common retroperitoneal malignancy?

55
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Classic imaging appearance of retroperitoneal lymphoma (Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin)

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non-Hodgkin: Larger, non-continuous retroperitoneal masses involving the mesentery

Hodgkin: Smaller, more continuous retroperitoneal nodules involving the para-aortic region

56
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Best imaging study for retroperitoneal lymphoma

57
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Most common cause of retroperitoneal hemorrhage

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Over-anticoagulation (elevated PT/INR)

58
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Common causes of retroperitoneal hemorrhage

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  • Over-anticoagulation (most common)
  • Aortic leak/rupture (second most common)
  • Bleeding RCC or angiomyolipoma
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Differential for mantle-like soft tissue mass around the aorta

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  • Lymphoma (can dispose aorta anteriorly)
  • Retroperitoneal fibrosis (rarely seen above the renal arteries, tends to obstruct things)
  • Erdheim Chester (consider if also shown radiographs of the legs with bilateral symmetric sclerosis of the metaphyses)
60
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Can PET/CT help distinguish lymphoma from retroperitoneal fibrosis?

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Not really, both can be hot on PET

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Is retroperitoneal fibrosis or lymphoma more likely to cause ureteral obstruction?

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Retroperitoneal fibrosis is more likely to cause obstructions

Note: Retroperitoneal lymphoma is more likely to push things than obstruct them.

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