Primary carcinoid tumour of the kidney. A case report and review of the literature.
Carcinoid tumours are known to occur frequently in the gastrointestinal and respiratory tracts. A primary carcinoid tumour of the kidney is an extremely rare entity and only 40 cases have been reported in the literature. As a consequence, very little is known about its real histogenesis, and its prognosis and clinicopathological patterns are not precisely defined. We report a case of primary carcinoid tumour of the kidney found in a middle-aged woman treated by nephrectomy, along with a thorough review of the literature concerning this kind of neoplasm.
Siquini
Walter
W
Dipartimento di Scienze Medico-Chirurgiche, Clinica Chirurgica Universitià Politecnica delle Marche, Via Conca, 60020 Torrette, Ancona.
Stortoni
Pierpaolo
P
Criante
Patrizia
P
Mazzucchelli
Roberta
R
Angelici
Stefano
S
Romiti
Marco
M
Fianchini
Aroldo
A
Landi
Eduardo
E
D002276:Carcinoid Tumor / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009392:Nephrectomy; D016896:Treatment Outcome