Surgery is Curative: Polycythemia Due to Benign Kidney Disease

The common association of chronic renal disease and anaemia is well documented in literature. Less frequent and perhaps more complex is the association of renal lesions and polycythemia, or more specifically, erythrocytosis. Increasing evidence, both clinical and investigative, suggests that this peculiar association does not have its basis in mere coincidence. The following case report shows the possible relationship of benign kidney disease with erythrocytosis and cured after surgery.