Renal Cell Carcinoma, Unclassified with Medullary Phenotype: Poorly-Differentiated Adenocarcinomas Overlapping with Renal Medullary Carcinoma

Renal medullary carcinoma (RMC) is a highly aggressive renal cell carcinoma, arising in the collecting system, and requiring careful correlation with status of sickle cell trait. A panel of international experts has recently proposed provisional diagnostic terminology, renal cell carcinoma, unclassified, with medullary phenotype (RCCU-MP), based on encountering an extraordinarily rare tumor with RMC morphology and immunophenotype in an individual proven not to have a hemoglobinopathy. Herein, we extend this observation to a cohort of five such tumors, morphologically similar to RMC, lacking SMARCB1 expression by immunohistochemistry, but each without evidence of a hemoglobinopathy.

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