Malignant fibrous histiocytoma of the kidney.
We report on a 33-year-old woman with malignant fibrous histiocytoma of the kidney. This malignant mesenchymal tumor is indistinguishable clinically and radiologically from a renal cell carcinoma. In our patient the tumor recurred locally following nephrectomy and metastasized to the lung. Post-nephrectomy radiation and chemotherapy may not alter the poor prognosis.
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D018219:Histiocytoma, Benign Fibrous / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D009392:Nephrectomy