Tag Anthony Chang

Evaluation of a renal cyst/mass

Introduction Epidemiology and risk factors Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is the eighth most common malignancy in the world. According to the National Cancer Institute, in 2017 approximately 64,000 diagnoses were made in the United States and more than 330,000 worldwide.…

The Kidney

What is a human but an ingenious machine designed to turn, with “infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?” So said the storyteller in Isak Dinesen's Seven Gothic Tales . More accurately but less poetically, human kidneys serve…