title: Renal inflammatory pseudotumor.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, University of South Alabama College of Medicine and Medical Center, Mobile 36617, USA.
authors.forename: N D
authors.initials: ND
authors.lastname: Bell
authors.forename: J N
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Gavras
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Donnell
authors.forename: C B
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Rodning
mesh_terms: 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