Renal Vein Leiomyoma: A Rare Entity with Review of Literature

Tumors of vascular origin are unusual. These tumors are predominantly malignant and commonly arise from the inferior vena cava. Benign smooth muscle tumors arising from renal vein are very rare. We present a case of leiomyoma of renal vein in a post-menopausal woman that clinically resembled a retro...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Santosh, Mittal, Ankur, Devana, Sudheer Kumar, Singh, Shrawan Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4142479/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25161811
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2156-7514.137836
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author Kumar, Santosh
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description Tumors of vascular origin are unusual. These tumors are predominantly malignant and commonly arise from the inferior vena cava. Benign smooth muscle tumors arising from renal vein are very rare. We present a case of leiomyoma of renal vein in a post-menopausal woman that clinically resembled a retroperitoneal paraganglioma.
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spelling pubmed-41424792014-08-26 Renal Vein Leiomyoma: A Rare Entity with Review of Literature Kumar, Santosh Mittal, Ankur Devana, Sudheer Kumar Singh, Shrawan Kumar J Clin Imaging Sci Case Report Tumors of vascular origin are unusual. These tumors are predominantly malignant and commonly arise from the inferior vena cava. Benign smooth muscle tumors arising from renal vein are very rare. We present a case of leiomyoma of renal vein in a post-menopausal woman that clinically resembled a retroperitoneal paraganglioma. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014-07-31 /pmc/articles/PMC4142479/ /pubmed/25161811 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2156-7514.137836 Text en Copyright: © 2014 Kumar S. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 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 author and source are credited.
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title_sort renal vein leiomyoma: a rare entity with review of literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4142479/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25161811
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