[Errors and difficulties in the clinical diagnosis of kidney cancer]

Differences in the clinical and pathoanatomical diagnosis of renal cancers were evaluated in 52 autopsy cases of patients who died of renal cancer. The diagnoses differed in 14 cases (26.9%) Most errors are related to prevalence in the clinical pictures of symptoms caused by metastases. The second frequent error was domination in the clinical picture of paraneoplastic syndromes--fever, amyloidosis, etc.