Renal medullary carcinoma: CT and MRI features.
OBJECTIVE
We review the cross-sectional imaging findings of six cases of pathologically proven renal medullary carcinoma in patients with sickle cell trait. MRI findings were available in three of the patients. To our knowledge, only one previous report has addressed MRI features of this rare disease.


CONCLUSIONS
In young patients with sickle cell trait, an infiltrative renal mass with associated retroperitoneal adenopathy and caliectasis are characteristic findings of renal medullary carcinoma on CT and MRI.
Blitman
Netta M
NM
Department of Radiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Children's Hospital at Montefiore, 3400 Bainbridge Ave., Bronx, NY 10467, USA.
Berkenblit
Robert G
RG
Rozenblit
Alla M
AM
Levin
Terry L
TL
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D018276:Carcinoma, Medullary / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003287:Contrast Media; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000473:pathology; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012805:Sickle Cell Trait / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D003287:Contrast Media