title: [Angiomyolipoma of the kidney: a case report and a statistical study of 429 cases in Japan].
abstract: A 40-year-old housewife was found to have a renal mass on her left side through an ultrasonogram at the hospital during a medical check up. The patient had a dull pain in her left flank intermittently for three years. She had no personal or family history of stigmas of tuberous sclerosis. The mass showed a high echogenicity on the ultrasonogram and a low density (-84HU) on the CT scan. Preoperative diagnosis was reported as renal angiomyolipoma and an enucleation of the tumor was performed with CUSA. A statistical study was done on data taken from 429 cases of renal angiomyolipoma in the Japanese literature, including our case. The male to female ratio was 1 to 2.9. Thirty three percent of the cases were associated with tuberous sclerosis. The ratio of bilateral cases to unilateral ones was 1:4. The main clinical signs were abdominal pain, abdominal mass and gross hematuria. Nephrectomy was done in 71.0% of the cases, partial nephrectomy and enucleation in 13.7% and embolization in 2.2%. Through the composition of the CT scan and the ultrasonogram, preoperative diagnosis has become possible in many cases, so recently the ratio of nephrectomy has been decreasing. We think partial nephrectomy and enucleation compose the most effective therapy for renal angiomyolipoma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Higashi Municipal Hospital.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hayashi
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Terao
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Yamasaki
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008067:Lipoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography