New Aspects of Pathophysiology and Pathomorphology of Renal Lesions in Malignant Tumors

Glomerular injuries associated with malignancy are rare and they are morphologically heterogeneous. Although the pathophysiologic interrelations between a tumor and glomerulopathy are not clear, molecular mechanisms of paraneoplastic glomerulopathies and pathologic features of renal lesions in solid tumors, lymphoproliferative and myeloproliferative disorders have been discovered over recent decades.

• Boldukyz Tolgonbaevna Dzhumabaeva Hematology Research Center under the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, 4а Novyi Zykovskii pr-d, Moscow, Russian Federation, 125167 ; ФГБУ «Гематологический научный центр» Минздрава России, Новый Зыковский пр-д, д. 4а, Москва, Российская Федерация, 125167
• L.S. Biryukova Hematology Research Center under the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, 4а Novyi Zykovskii pr-d, Moscow, Russian Federation, 125167 ; ФГБУ «Гематологический научный центр» Минздрава России, Новый Зыковский пр-д, д. 4а, Москва, Российская Федерация, 125167

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