Primary intrarenal teratoma in an adult: A case report and review of literature

A 35-year-old male presented with left loin pain. On evaluation, he was diagnosed to have a left renal lower polar mass. He underwent partial nephrectomy. The histopathological examination was suggestive of teratoma of the kidney. We present this case, as intrarenal teratomas in adults are extremely...

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Autores principales: Nirmal, T. J., Krishnamoorthy, S., Korula, A.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Uropathology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2779971/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19881142
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-1591.56184
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description A 35-year-old male presented with left loin pain. On evaluation, he was diagnosed to have a left renal lower polar mass. He underwent partial nephrectomy. The histopathological examination was suggestive of teratoma of the kidney. We present this case, as intrarenal teratomas in adults are extremely rare and only a very few cases are reported in literature.
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spelling pubmed-27799712009-11-27 Primary intrarenal teratoma in an adult: A case report and review of literature Nirmal, T. J. Krishnamoorthy, S. Korula, A. Indian J Urol Uropathology A 35-year-old male presented with left loin pain. On evaluation, he was diagnosed to have a left renal lower polar mass. He underwent partial nephrectomy. The histopathological examination was suggestive of teratoma of the kidney. We present this case, as intrarenal teratomas in adults are extremely rare and only a very few cases are reported in literature. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2779971/ /pubmed/19881142 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-1591.56184 Text en © Indian Journal of Urology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Nirmal, T. J.
Krishnamoorthy, S.
Korula, A.
Primary intrarenal teratoma in an adult: A case report and review of literature
title Primary intrarenal teratoma in an adult: A case report and review of literature
title_full Primary intrarenal teratoma in an adult: A case report and review of literature
title_fullStr Primary intrarenal teratoma in an adult: A case report and review of literature
title_full_unstemmed Primary intrarenal teratoma in an adult: A case report and review of literature
title_short Primary intrarenal teratoma in an adult: A case report and review of literature
title_sort primary intrarenal teratoma in an adult: a case report and review of literature
topic Uropathology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2779971/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19881142
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-1591.56184
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