We report on a 44-year-old male patient with cystic angiomyolipoma (AML) simulating cystic renal cell carcinoma on computed tomography (CT).
The CT scan showed a 2.8-cm left renal cystic mass with an enhancing solid component. No fat density was identified in the mass. These findings were indicative of a cystic renal cell carcinoma. Robot-assisted laparoscopic partial nephrectomy was performed, but the final histologic result was a cystic AML. Herein, we would review the preoperative CT findings, which could have suggested cystic AML.
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Park HG, Kim HJ, Jeong YB. Are you the author?
Department of Urology, Chonbuk National University Medical School, Research Institute of Clinical Medicine of Chonbuk National University-Biomedical Research Institute of Chonbuk National University Hospital, Jeonju, South Korea.
Reference: Urology. 2015 Jun;85(6):e43-4.
doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2015.01.032
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 25865114
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