Renal oncocytoma is considered benign, cured by nephrectomy.

Renal oncocytoma, a kidney tumour composed of oncocytes.

A renal oncocytoma is a tumour of the kidney made up of oncocytes, a special kind of cell.

Renal oncocytoma is thought to arise from the intercalated cells of collecting ducts of the kidney.

The molecular genetic defects in renal tumors of people with BHD are different from two other similar kidney tumors, chromophobe renal cell carcinoma and renal oncocytoma.

The main differential diagnosis of renal oncocytoma is chromophobe renal cell carcinoma oncocytic variant, which like the renal oncocytoma has eosinophilic cytoplasm, but has perinuclear clearing and, typically, some degree of nuclear atypia.