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Abstract

Introduction


Sarcomatoid renal cell carcinoma is a rare tumour of the kidney whichaccounts for l%of renal neoplasms inadults and has been reported in ito 6.5% of renal cortical carcinomas in different studies The diagnostic morphological feature of this cancer is the intermingling of typical renal cell carcinoma with a component of sarcomatoid features, comprising of spindle cells without organisation or resembling malignant fibrous histiocytoma or fibrosarcoma4. The prognosis of this highly malignant carcinoma is poor and nephrectomy is ineffective in its management because extra-renal invasion is usually present at the time of diagnosis5. Three cases diagnosed histologically as sarcornatoid renal cell careinoma are presented.