Leiomyoma of the Renal Vein: A Rare Tumor Presenting as a Renal Mass

Leiomyomas are benign mesenchymal tumors that rarely occur in the kidney. Renal leiomyomas usually occur in the renal cortex or capsule. They are less commonly found in the muscularis propria of the renal pelvis and cortical vascular smooth muscle. In this case report, we present a 41-year-old woman...

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Autores principales: Kocak, Cengiz, Kabay, Sahin, Isler, Burak
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4402193/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25945278
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/950584
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author Kocak, Cengiz
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description Leiomyomas are benign mesenchymal tumors that rarely occur in the kidney. Renal leiomyomas usually occur in the renal cortex or capsule. They are less commonly found in the muscularis propria of the renal pelvis and cortical vascular smooth muscle. In this case report, we present a 41-year-old woman who had right flank pain and detected a mass in the right kidney hilum.
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spelling pubmed-44021932015-05-05 Leiomyoma of the Renal Vein: A Rare Tumor Presenting as a Renal Mass Kocak, Cengiz Kabay, Sahin Isler, Burak Case Rep Urol Case Report Leiomyomas are benign mesenchymal tumors that rarely occur in the kidney. Renal leiomyomas usually occur in the renal cortex or capsule. They are less commonly found in the muscularis propria of the renal pelvis and cortical vascular smooth muscle. In this case report, we present a 41-year-old woman who had right flank pain and detected a mass in the right kidney hilum. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-04-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4402193/ /pubmed/25945278 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/950584 Text en Copyright © 2015 Cengiz Kocak et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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Leiomyoma of the Renal Vein: A Rare Tumor Presenting as a Renal Mass
title Leiomyoma of the Renal Vein: A Rare Tumor Presenting as a Renal Mass
title_full Leiomyoma of the Renal Vein: A Rare Tumor Presenting as a Renal Mass
title_fullStr Leiomyoma of the Renal Vein: A Rare Tumor Presenting as a Renal Mass
title_full_unstemmed Leiomyoma of the Renal Vein: A Rare Tumor Presenting as a Renal Mass
title_short Leiomyoma of the Renal Vein: A Rare Tumor Presenting as a Renal Mass
title_sort leiomyoma of the renal vein: a rare tumor presenting as a renal mass
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4402193/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25945278
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/950584
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