THE 1ST CYTOGENETIC STUDY OF A SARCOMATOID RENAL-CELL CARCINOMA

Sarcomatoid renal carcinoma (SRC) is a neoplasm recently defined and u ntil now not well identified in order to consider it a sarcomatoid com ponent. The very low frequence and its high malignancy induced the aut hors to present the data of the first cytogenetic study conducted on m etastatic cells obtained from pleuric effusion in a patient admitted t o the hospital for intrapulmonary nodular lesion. The results demonstr ate the involvement of chromosomes 1, 5, 16, 19 and the authors discus s the issues related to other malignant forms of the urinary tract.