[Atypic radiologic aspect of a renal cell carcinoma in children].
Renal cell carcinoma is rare in children and is usually found in late childhood. The authors report on an exceptional case of renal cell carcinoma in a 10-year-old girl. The radiological aspect is misleading and has not been previously reported in the literature. Renal cortex was thin because of congenital megalo-ureter, so the tumor developed entirely into excretory cavities (to the proximal ureter), while a primitive urothelial disease (tumoral or inflammatory) was first evoked. The atrophied cortex was the tumoral starting point which prolapsed into excretory cavities, upraising the urothelial epithelium.
Arifa Achour
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Service de radiologie, hôpital Sahloul, 4051 Sousse, Tunisie.
Jemni
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Alouini
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R
Bacha
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M
Mhiri Souei
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M
Mrad Dali
K
K
Zakhama
A
A
Harbi
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A
Tlili Graiess
K
K
D017668:Age of Onset; D001284:Atrophy; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007672:Kidney Cortex / Q000473:pathology; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011859:Radiography; D014515:Ureteral Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology