title: Primary anaplastic large cell lymphoma of the kidney.
abstract: Primary renal lymphoma is a rare disease. There is still no agreement on its development primarily in this non-lymphoid organ. Some of the reported cases are questionable because of the incomplete staging of extrarenal disease. In the present study, we describe a rare case of a 73-year-old white man presenting with right flank pain. Physical examination did not reveal any peripheral lymphadenopathy or hepatosplenomegaly. An abdominal computerized tomography (CT) showed a large tumor in the right kidney with no enlarged liver, spleen or lymph nodes. On morphological and immunohistochemical examination, the tumor fulfilled the criteria of anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL). A review of the literature revealed that this is the first reported case of primary ALCL of the kidney.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Aristotelian University, Hippokration General Hospital Kontantinoupoleos 49 54642 Thessaloniki, Greece.
authors.forename: Ioannis D
authors.initials: ID
authors.lastname: Venizelos
authors.forename: Vasilios
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Rombis
authors.forename: Stavros
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tulupidis
authors.forename: Vasiliki
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Garipidou
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000077548:Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D017730:Ki-1 Antigen / Q000032:analysis; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D017728:Lymphoma, Large-Cell, Anaplastic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / Q000032:analysis; D020794:Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D017730:Ki-1 Antigen; D000077548:Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases; D020794:Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases