Spectrum of Histopathological lesions in Nephrectomy specimens - A two year study in a tertiary care hospital

Nephrectomy is a common procedure in urological practice. Simple nephrectomy is indicated in patients with an irreversible damaged kidney resulting from symptomatic chronic infections, obstruction, calculus, severe traumatic injury and renal dysplasia. Objective is to study the histopathological features of various lesions in nephrectomy specimens, to study the frequency of different pathological lesions, particularly Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC) in nephrectomy specimens. Twenty two cases of nephrectomies were received in the department of histopathology. Out of 22 patients, 14 were males and 8 were females. The spectrum of pathological lesions included inflammatory lesions, benign and malignant tumours. Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) was the most common malignant tumour seen in this study. A case of oncocytoma and epithelioid angiomyolipoma were also diagnosed. Our study has revealed that the renal tumours are the commonest lesions in nephrectomy specimens and RCC was the predominant malignant tumour.