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Microdissection of Primary Renal Tissue Segments and Incorporation with Novel Scaffold-free Construct Technology
Published on: March 27, 2018
[Pseudo-tumoral suprarénal-renal dysgenesis (author's transl)]
Abstract:
Intimate fusion of the renal and suprarenal parenchyma, associated with cystic lesions in the zone of tissue juxtaposition, constitutes a form of suprarenal-renal dysgenesis for which the name "dystopia" has been suggested. The distinction must be made from suprarenal-renal adhesions in which a connective tissue barrier between the two parenchymas persists. In this present case, the malformation gave rise to a pseudo-tumoral syndrome of rapid appearance in association with a haemorrhage. Removal of the kidney cannot be avoided in view of the absence of any plane of cleavage with the suprarenal when the suprarenal tumour is removed.
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