title: Lymphoma of the kidney: primary or initial manifestation of rapidly progressive systemic disease?
abstract: Primary renal lymphoma is a controversial and rare disease. There is no agreement whether or not it is an initial manifestation of a rapidly systemic disease. Most reported cases are questionable because of incomplete staging and lack of autopsy studies. Herein, we present a 71-year-old woman, initially diagnosed with primary non-Hodgkin lymphoma of the kidney, but was lost 4 months after radical nephrectomy due to systemic disease despite aggressive chemotherapy, and suggest that, the kidney of the patient was the initial presenting site of a rapidly progressive systemic disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Haseki Teaching and Research Hospital, 34390, Haseki, Istanbul, Turkey. atefekli@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Ahmet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tefekli
authors.forename: Murat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Baykal
authors.forename: Murat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Binbay
authors.forename: Mustafa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Barut
authors.forename: Ahmet Yaser
authors.initials: AY
authors.lastname: Muslumanoglu
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D018450:Disease Progression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D016393:Lymphoma, B-Cell / Q000473:pathology*; D013997:Time Factors