Fever and Anemia in Renal Cancer

Abstract

A SURVEY of 36 proved cases of renal cancer has been made to determine the importance of fever and anemia as diagnostic signs in this disease. All patients underwent operations: nephrectomy in 35 and exploration and biopsy in 1. The histologic diagnosis, in every case, was consistent with cancer of the tubular epithelium. Various names have been applied to this neoplasm, including Grawitz's tumor, hypernephroma, clear-cell carcinoma and renal-cell or renal-tubular carcinoma.ResultsOur findings are summarized in Tables 1 to ⁷. Two of the 36 patients presented otherwise unexplained fever as a chief complaint (Table 2). Eight others had fever as . . .