Korean J Urol.
1979 Aug;20(4):411-415.
A Case of Renal Angiomyolipoma
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- 1Department of Urology, College of Medicine, Ewha Woman's University, Seoul, Korea.
Abstract
- An angiomyolipoma of the kidney is a benign tumor composed of tissues normally present in an organ but abnormal in quantity, arrangement or degree of maturation. Neither laboratory nor clinical findings provide enough material to diagnose angiomyolipomas so it is very difficult to make correct presurgical diagnosis. A 51 year old housewife was admitted with chief complain of right flank pain and palpable mass for a week duration After urologic and radiologic studies, a presumptive diagnosis of renal cell carcinoma was made and operation was performed. On histologic examination of the removed kidney, it turned out as a angiomyolipoma of the kidney. So we report this case with review of literatures.
