Renal lesions associated with malignant lymphomas.

IN 1878 Sutton and Turner [1] presented to the Pathological Society of London their autopsy findings in nine patients with "Hodgkin's disease and allied conditions." Seven showed visceral involvement by the primary process . In five the kidneys were affected. Two of the latter patients, one a boy whose kidneys weighed 19 .5 and 19 ounces, respectively, had not shown any increase in the number of "colorless corpuscles" in the blood during life and were stated to be suffering from Hodgkin's disease . They are believed to represent the first examples of malignant lymphoma in which involvement of the kidneys by the tumor was recorded .