<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Adenomatosis is a rare lesion of unknown etiology, defined as multiple (usually 5 or more) adenomas in one kidney. A case of renal adenomatosis in a 68-year-old woman treated previously for urolithiasis, who underwent nephrectomy because of the nonfunctional left kidney is reported. Apart from multiple adenomas, numerous hyperplastic lesions involving single tubules were present in the resected kidney. Both adenomas and hyperplastic lesions exhibited the expression of alpha-methylacyl-coenzyme A racemase (AMACR). Renal adenomatosis is worth special attention, since renal papillary adenomas are suggested as precursor lesions of papillary renal cell carcinoma that show similar AMACR expression.</p></abstract>

Adenomatosis is a rare lesion of unknown etiology, defined as multiple (usually 5 or more) adenomas in one kidney. A case of renal adenomatosis in a 68-year-old woman treated previously for urolithiasis, who underwent nephrectomy because of the nonfunctional left kidney is reported. Apart from multiple adenomas, numerous hyperplastic lesions involving single tubules were present in the resected kidney. Both adenomas and hyperplastic lesions exhibited the expression of alpha-methylacyl-coenzyme A racemase (AMACR). Renal adenomatosis is worth special attention, since renal papillary adenomas are suggested as precursor lesions of papillary renal cell carcinoma that show similar AMACR expression.

Renal adenomatosis

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Adenomatosis is a rare lesion of unknown etiology, defined as multiple (usually 5 or more) adenomas in one kidney. A case of renal adenomatosis in a...

Renal adenomatosis

Published Online: Dec 29, 2017

Page range: 162 - 163

Received: Sep 07, 2017

Accepted: Oct 05, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/cipms-2017-0030

Keywords
adenomatosis, kidney, renal papillary adenoma, renal hyperplastic lesions, papillary renal cell carcinoma

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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Renal adenomatosis

Published Online: Dec 29, 2017

Page range: 162 - 163

Received: Sep 07, 2017

Accepted: Oct 05, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/cipms-2017-0030

Keywordsadenomatosis, kidney, renal papillary adenoma, renal hyperplastic lesions, papillary renal cell carcinoma

© 2018

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
adenomatosis, kidney, renal papillary adenoma, renal hyperplastic lesions, papillary renal cell carcinoma