Laparoscopic diagnosis and management of perinephric adipose-containing lesions.
We describe two patients in whom imaging and percutaneous biopsy of perinephric masses were insufficient for diagnosis. Laparoscopic biopsy permitted the diagnosis of fibrosis with chronic inflammation in one case and liposarcoma in the other.
Lucioni
Alvario
A
Section of Urology, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
Orvieto
Marcelo A
MA
Chien
Gary W
GW
Sokoloff
Mitchell H
MH
Gerber
Glenn S
GS
Shalhav
Arieh L
AL
D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy / Q000379:methods; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D008080:Liposarcoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D012185:Retroperitoneal Fibrosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D012186:Retroperitoneal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D012187:Retroperitoneal Space / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed