Adenocarcinoma of the renal pelvis in an elderly woman.

Adenocarcinoma of the renal pelvis is so rare that many reviews of renal tumours fail to include any instance of this lesion. We present a 75-year-old female patient with no previous history of urological disease in whom a renal pelvic tumour was diagnosed. Histological examination after radical nephroureterectomy proved the tumour to be a rare adenocarcinoma. The course of the disease, the possible predisposing factors, the treatment of the tumour and the prognosis are discussed.