Oncocytoma

In oncocytoma is a benign epithelial tumors group, which have in common the histological structure of fine-grained, large, eosinophilic mitochondria- rich tumor cells, the so-called oncocytes.

Oncocytomas occur in the salivary glands, the kidney, the anterior pituitary and thyroid glands. Especially in the latter localization of the tumor after the pathologist Karl Hurthle, also known as Hurthle Zelladenom is called.

Diagnostics

The oncocytoma of the kidney is sometimes discovered by chance in computed tomography. The distinction between a malignant tumor such as renal cell carcinoma in imaging often not easy, even if characteristics such as a central scar or a so-called Radspeichenphänomen have been described.