Neoplastic Process
kidney neoplasm
kid·ney ne·o·plasm [ kid-nee nee-uh-plaz-uhm ]
Subclass of:
Urologic Neoplasms; Kidney Diseases
Definitions related to kidney neoplasm:
  • (kidney tumor) Neoplasia located in the kidney.
    NICHD Pediatric Terminology
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • (renal neoplasm) The presence of a neoplasm of the kidney.
    Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)
    The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2021
  • A benign or malignant neoplasm affecting the kidney. Representative examples of benign renal neoplasms include fibroma, lipoma, oncocytoma, and juxtaglomerular cell tumor. Representative examples of malignant renal neoplasms include renal cell carcinoma, renal pelvis carcinoma, Wilms tumor, rhabdoid tumor, sarcoma, and lymphoma.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • New abnormal tissue of the kidney that grows by excessive cellular division and proliferation more rapidly than normal and continues to grow after the stimuli that initiated the new growth cease.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Tumors or cancers of the KIDNEY.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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