title: Complications of renal angiomyolipomas: CT evaluation.
abstract: Complications from angiomyolipomas are rare but often severe depending on the size and content of the angiomyolipoma. In this study, we describe 10 cases from 63 patients with renal angiomyolipomas in whom computed tomography revealed the following complications: compression of pyelocalyceal system in three cases, intratumoral bleeding in two cases, rupture in four cases with subcapsular, perirenal, or pararenal hematoma and extensive intrarenal/parapelvic hematoma, cystic degeneration in one case.
authors.affiliation: CT Department of 6th and 1st IKA Hospitals, Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Antonopoulos
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Drossos
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Triantopoulou
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Picramenos
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dalamarinis
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Costacopoulos
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D018207:Angiomyolipoma / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006406:Hematoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007670:Kidney Calices / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D052177:Kidney Diseases, Cystic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D007682:Kidney Pelvis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed