Papillary renal cell carcinoma in 40 years old male patient: A case report

Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is heterogeneous disease which is having different histological variants with a distinct clinical course and genetic changes. Papillary renal cell carcinoma is an uncommon variant of renal cell carcinoma. It is considered to be a less aggressive tumour. This tumour has better prognosis than that for non-papillary renal tumours. As the prognosis of Papillary RCC depends upon early detection and typing of the RCC, meticulous histopathological examination of nephrectomy specimen is must.