How to distinguish between renal hamartoma and kidney cancer

If you want to diagnose what disease, need to do pathological diagnosis, puncture biopsy. Hamartoma that is renal angiomyolipoma, generally benign tumor, to 5 cm as the boundary, 5 cm when there will be damage to the kidney, a small number of hamartoma cancer malignant transformation, need to be removed, now can be removed by laparoscopic minimally invasive surgery, the tumor enucleated or partial kidney resection, and then take out the specimen to see whether benign or malignant.

These two diseases need to be distinguished from imaging, it is recommended to see a doctor in time. In B-ultrasound examination, it can generally prompt hamartoma and renal cancer different, there are some difficult to distinguish hamartoma. When the tumor is less than 5 cm, you can first observe, three months review, see if there is no progressive increase in the tumor, if there is no increase in the observation, if there is an increase in the urinary system according to the circumstances of the imaging, or surgical resection, after the pathological diagnosis.