Abstract
HYPERNEPHROMA of the kidney in children is a true rarity, and was first described by Grawitz in 1883.1It has been thought to be a renal tumor of adults originating from aberrant adrenal tissue in the kidney. This neoplasm is so seldom seen in children that some investigators2-4believe that it is not a true carcinoma of the kidney when found in this age group. Others5,6believe that it may originate from renal tubular epithelium. We have observed hypernephroma at G. W. Hubbard Hospital in a 3-year-old Negro boy who underwent a right nephrectomy, and who has had no evidence of metastasis or recurrence during a 50-month follow-up period. Report of a Case A 3-year-old Negro boy was admitted to the pediatric inpatient service on May 17, 1964, with a chief complaint of passing blood in his urine. According to his grandmother, the child had fallen from
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