Renal carcinoid tumor.
Primary renal carcinoid is a rare tumor, until now less than 50 cases of this tumor has been reported, so very little is known about its presentation clinicopathologic patterns and prognosis. We report a patient with primary carcinoid tumor of kidney in a middle-aged woman treated by nephrectomy and review the literature concerning this kind of neoplasm.
Transplant Research Center, Department of Pathology, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Iran. geramib@sums.ac.ir
Bita
B
Geramizadeh
Abdolaziz
A
Khezri
Mahmoud
M
Shariat
D002276:Carcinoid Tumor / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D009392:Nephrectomy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome