Benign renal mesenchymoma in the pediatric age group: a novel pathologic and karyotype entity

Urology. 2004 May;63(5):981-4. doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2004.01.006.

Abstract

Benign mesenchymal renal tumors are extremely rare in the pediatric age group. We report a case of a benign renal tumor composed of smooth muscle cells, adipose tissue, and areas of cartilaginous differentiation and expressing a 46,XX, t(8;10)(q21;q24) karyotype in a 13-year-old girl. Although some pediatric renal tumors show a degree of heterologous differentiation, none of them exclusively consist of these three well-differentiated mesenchymal components. The unique features of the present case were further confirmed by the karyotype changes, which to our knowledge, have never been described before in a pediatric renal tumor.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Appendicitis / surgery
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Incidental Findings*
  • Karyotyping
  • Kidney Neoplasms / genetics
  • Kidney Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Mesenchymoma / genetics
  • Mesenchymoma / pathology*