Renal inflammatory pseudotumor.
A previously healthy 37-year-old man had evaluation of abdominal pain, which had persisted after abrupt onset with fever and hematuria. Although the fever and hematuria had spontaneously resolved after 1 week, the abdominal pain had worsened over a 4-month period. Predicated upon computed tomography and with a presumed diagnosis of renal cell adenocarcinoma, left radical nephrectomy was done. Histopathologic analysis was negative for malignancy but compatible with inflammatory pseudotumor of the urogenital tract--a pathologic entity that is common in the urinary bladder and prostate gland but is rarely diagnosed in the kidney.
Bell
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Department of Pathology, University of South Alabama College of Medicine and Medical Center, Mobile 36617, USA.
Gavras
J N
JN
Donnell
C A
CA
Rodning
C B
CB
D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006104:Granuloma, Plasma Cell / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000473:pathology; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D009392:Nephrectomy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed