hypernephroma
- noun
- /ˌhaɪpərnəˈfrəʊmə/
- Specialized
- The doctor explained that hypernephroma is often diagnosed late due to the absence of specific symptoms.
- metastatic hypernephroma
Examples
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In rare cases, a hypernephroma was found to be the cause of the patient's kidney failure.
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After the biopsy, the results confirmed that the tumor was a hypernephroma growing aggressively.
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Therefore, a metastasis can be the first manifestation of a hypernephroma.
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However, it is rare (similar to 1%) to see only a single hypernephroma metastasize to the head or neck, as was the case with our patient.
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Hypernephroma is the third most common (after lung and breast cancer) primary source of head and neck metastases.
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Several authors have reported that in patients with sinonasal metastases, the most common primary malignancy was hypernephroma, which accounted for approximately 50% of all cases.
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In a series of cases of metastatic carcinoma reported by McNichols et al., 11% of patients had first received treatment for their primary hypernephroma more than 10 years earlier.
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Photograph shows the metastatic hypernephroma that manifested as a solitary sinonasal mass.
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According to Sgouras et al., sinonasal metastasis is sometimes the first or the only manifestation of a hypernephroma.
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We report a rare case of a hypernephroma that had metastasized to the sinonasal area as a solitary mass. Despite much difficulty, a confirmatory biopsy of the nasal mass was obtained.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
hypernephroma = hyper + nephr + oma
Although the term contains recognizable medical elements meaning roughly 'above/excessive' + 'kidney' + 'tumor', the modern sense 'malignant tumor of the kidney' is a technical historical label and is not directly predictable for most learners.
Etymology
Hypernephroma comes from three parts: hyper- meaning 'over', as in hyperactive, nephro- meaning 'kidney', and -oma meaning 'tumor', as in melanoma. So, hypernephroma points to a tumor of the kidney, which is why doctors use it for a type of kidney cancer.