Balkan nephropathy incidence

An important feature of Balkan nephropathy is its association with a high incidence of tumors of the renal pelvis and ureters, but not urinary bladder tumors [22, 94,95]. However, the difference between the incidence of upper urothelial tumors in endemic and non-endemic regions diminished in the last decades. In the sixties and seventies the incidence of these tumors was reported to be several dozen times higher in endemic than in non-endemic regions, while in the last decades this difference almost disappeared [21, 22, 94, 96, 97]. 

Upper urothelial tumors of patients originating from the region with Balkan nephropathy differ from tumors identified in patients from other regions in their similar incidence in both sexes, bilateral occurrence, and more common association with chronic renal failure [95]. 

An important feature of Balkan nephropathy is its association with a high incidence of tumors of the re-... 

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