Nephroblastoma in the adult

✍ Scribed by De Marco, Salvatore; Pollera, Camillo F.; Cognetti, Francesco

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 130 KB
• Volume: 33
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0098-1532
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-911x(199911)33:5<497::aid-mpo11>3.0.co;2-3

✦ Synopsis

Our discussion is based on a 42-year-old man submitted to a medical examination for recurrent hematuria. On physical examination he was found to have a large, firm flank mass on the left side. His medical history was unremarkable. Laboratory tests were all within the normal range. He was first submitted to a computerized tomography (CT) scan of the abdomen, which revealed the presence of a solid, large inhomogeneus mass in the area of the left kidney. The lesion measured 30 × 20 × 15 cm, and was detached and compressed the nearby structures without infiltrating them. The other kidney appeared normal. There was no evidence of lymphonodal involvement (Fig. 1). X-ray films and CT scan of the chest were normal.