Multilocular cystic renal cell carcinoma in a child.
Multilocular cystic renal cell carcinoma is an extremely rare condition in adults with no previous case reports in the pediatric age group. The authors report on an 8-year-old girl who underwent nephrectomy for a right-sided renal cystic disease because of extensive involvement of the kidney. Subsequent histopathologic examination findings showed presence of renal cell carcinoma in all the cysts. Awareness of this malignancy in a child is extremely important in the background of recent reports advocating conservative wait and watch management in unilateral renal cystic disease, which has similar clinical and imaging findings.
Menon
Prema
P
Department of Pediatric Surgery, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
Rao
K L N
KL
Kakkar
N
N
Saxena
A K
AK
Singh
Meenu
M
D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D007813:Laparotomy