A young female case of primary renal carcinoid tumor mimicking fat-poor angiomyolipoma

Renal mass biopsy is useful for the pathological diagnosis of a small renal mass difficult to distinguish fat-poor angiomyolipoma from renal cell carcinoma radiologically. Here, we report a young female case of a small renal mass suspected as fat-poor angiomyolipoma in imaging studies. The patient r...

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Published inInternational cancer conference journal Vol. 7; no. 4; pp. 156 - 158
Main Authors Kato, Rie, Fukushima, Hiroshi, Kobayashi, Masaki, Kawano, Keizo, Morimoto, Shinji
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Tokyo Springer Japan 01.10.2018
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Algorithms
Angiomyolipoma
Biopsy
Calcification
Case Report
Diagnosis
Endoscopy
Ethics
Females
Kidney cancer
Magnetic resonance imaging
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Nephrectomy
Neuroendocrine tumors
Oncology
Patients
Renal cell carcinoma
Surgical Oncology
Tomography
Ultrasonic imaging
Urology
Biopsy
Angiomyolipoma
Neuroendocrine tumors
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Summary:Renal mass biopsy is useful for the pathological diagnosis of a small renal mass difficult to distinguish fat-poor angiomyolipoma from renal cell carcinoma radiologically. Here, we report a young female case of a small renal mass suspected as fat-poor angiomyolipoma in imaging studies. The patient received a renal mass biopsy to obtain the correct pathological information. Unexpectedly, the pathological diagnosis was neuroendocrine tumor. She, finally, underwent a right radical nephrectomy as a curative treatment. This case indicates that the radiological findings of primary renal carcinoid tumor can be similar to those of fat-poor angiomyolipoma.
ISSN:2192-3183
2192-3183
DOI:10.1007/s13691-018-0341-2