Mature Cystic Teratoma of Renal Pelvis: An Unusual Presentation at an Uncommon Site

Teratoma of the kidney is uncommon. We report a case of a young boy with a large, right-sided retroperitoneal cyst suspected as lymphangioma causing hydronephrosis. His renal pelvis was dilated, containing purulent fluid, and a nephrectomy was performed. Histopathology revealed a mature cystic terat...

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Autores principales: Balaji, Bhuvanagiri Srihari, Karl, Immanuel Sampath
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6568154/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31258275
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jiaps.JIAPS_114_18
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description Teratoma of the kidney is uncommon. We report a case of a young boy with a large, right-sided retroperitoneal cyst suspected as lymphangioma causing hydronephrosis. His renal pelvis was dilated, containing purulent fluid, and a nephrectomy was performed. Histopathology revealed a mature cystic teratoma of the renal pelvis.
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spelling pubmed-65681542019-07-01 Mature Cystic Teratoma of Renal Pelvis: An Unusual Presentation at an Uncommon Site Balaji, Bhuvanagiri Srihari Karl, Immanuel Sampath J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg Case Report Teratoma of the kidney is uncommon. We report a case of a young boy with a large, right-sided retroperitoneal cyst suspected as lymphangioma causing hydronephrosis. His renal pelvis was dilated, containing purulent fluid, and a nephrectomy was performed. Histopathology revealed a mature cystic teratoma of the renal pelvis. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6568154/ /pubmed/31258275 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jiaps.JIAPS_114_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_full_unstemmed Mature Cystic Teratoma of Renal Pelvis: An Unusual Presentation at an Uncommon Site
title_short Mature Cystic Teratoma of Renal Pelvis: An Unusual Presentation at an Uncommon Site
title_sort mature cystic teratoma of renal pelvis: an unusual presentation at an uncommon site
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6568154/
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