Relationship Between Blood Groups and Tumors of the Upper Urinary Tract

Ebbe KvistDepartment of Surgery, Urological Section and Institute of Pathology, Sundby Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

Anne Falensteen LauritzenDepartment of Surgery, Urological Section and Institute of Pathology, Sundby Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

Jesper BredesenDepartment of Surgery, Urological Section and Institute of Pathology, Sundby Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

Michael LukeDepartment of Surgery, Urological Section and Institute of Pathology, Sundby Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

Abstract

Comparing the relationship between upper urinary tract tumors and blood group ABO and the rhesus system showed that patients with blood group A and blood type rhesus positive had more invasive tumors with a higher grade of dysplasia than patients with blood group O and blood type rhesus negative.

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