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New and Emerging Subtypes of Renal Cell Carcinoma

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Besides well-established entities of kidney tumors, there are new and emerging subtypes of renal cell carcinomas. The 2013 International Society of Urological Pathology (ISUP) Vancouver classification of adult renal neoplasia identified a category of new and emerging (or provisional new entities) entities. In this chapter, we discuss these entities except for “succinate dehydrogenase-deficient renal cell carcinoma and hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cell carcinoma-associated renal cell carcinoma,” which will be discussed in the chapter “Hereditary Syndromes-Associated Kidney Tumors.”

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  1. Department of Pathology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

    Priya Rao

  2. Department of Pathology and Genomic Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Houston, TX, USA

    Jae Y. Ro

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    Ayhan Ozcan

  3. Department of Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

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Rao, P., Ro, J.Y. (2020). New and Emerging Subtypes of Renal Cell Carcinoma. In: Divatia, M., Ozcan, A., Guo, C., Ro, J. (eds) Kidney Cancer. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28333-9_6

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