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BMC Urology BioMed Central Case report Open Access A rare case of renal oncocytoma associated with erythrocytosis: case report Demetrios Radopoulos, Konstantinos Tzakas and Anastasios Tahmatzopoulos* Address: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 1st Department of Urology, Ethnikis Amynis 41, 54635 Thessaloniki, Greece Email: Demetrios Radopoulos - urolauth@med.auth.gr; Konstantinos Tzakas - argitzak@otenet.gr; Anastasios Tahmatzopoulos* - tahmatzopoulos@ * Corresponding author Published: 23 September 2006 Received: 30 April 2006 Accepted: 23 September 2006 BMC Urology 2006, 6:26 doi:10.1186/1471-2490-6-26 This article is available from: /1471-2490/6/26 © 2006 Radopoulos et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Oncocytomas are benign tumors of the kidney that are usually diagnosed postoperatively due to differential diagnostic problems from renal cell carcinoma. Although the latter are neoplasms that have been associated with erythrocytosis in 3.5% of cases, there are no reports in the literature about a similar occurrence in oncocytomas. Case presentation: In this case report we present a unique case of a right lower pole oncocytoma associated with erythrocytosis. Ery