- Abstract -

Incidental detection of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) has increased significantly in recent years because of widespread use of abdominal imaging including ultrasonography. The patients with incidentally diagnosed RCC have better survival, being at a lower stage and grade than symptomatic tumors. Concerns regarding development of chronic renal failure after radical nephrectomy have resulted in an increasing use of organ-sparing surgical techniques for patients with small unilateral renal tumors in the presence of a normal contralateral kidney. Most of these cases are discovered incidental.

Key words: incidental renal cell carcinoma, ultrasonography, nephron-sparing surgery.