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To the Editor: A 61-year-old man with no symptoms was found to have an enormous mass that occupied the entire right flank and pushed the right kidney down. A preoperative cytologic specimen obtained from a computed tomography–guided fine-needle biopsy showed many huge epithelial cells, with naked or doubled nuclei, suggesting a diagnosis of a clear-cell carcinoma of the right kidney.

At surgery, an ovoid mass (24 by 18 cm) distinct from the right kidney was found. After the mass was removed (Figure 1), the appearance of the kidney was normal. A definitive histologic examination showed adrenocortical carcinoma (. . . [Full Text of this Article]

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