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Traumatic rupture of angiomyolipoma: a case report
F Gomes Almeida1, J Reis, A M Ribeiro
1Servicio de Radiología, Hospital Geral de Santo Porto, Portugal.
Objective:
To describe a case of traumatic rupture of renal angiomyolipoma (AML).
Methods:
The images and clinical data of the present case are presented.
Results:
A rare case with exuberant clinical presentation of a perirenal hematoma resulting from traumatic rupture of renal AML is presented with a brief review of the role of ultrasound (US) and body-CT in the diagnosis of this pathology and its complications.
Conclusions:
Whenever there is a collection detected by US in the various anatomic renal spaces, in a patient with flank pain and low hemoglobin shortly after abdominal trauma, it is advisable to perform abdominal CT and search for a hematoma. Small amounts of fat, detected by US and body-CT, may lead to the diagnosis of an underlying AML that can rupture, even in the case minor forces are applied to the kidney.