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Congenital cystic mesoblastic nephroma
G V S Murthi1, R Carachi, A Howatson
1Department of Surgical Paediatrics, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill, Glasgow, G3 8SJ, Scotland.
Pediatric Surgery International
|May 2, 2003
Abstract:
With widespread use of antenatal ultrasound, an increasing number of urinary-tract lesions are being detected, and the clinician is called upon to make management decisions. Parenchymal lesions of the kidney pose a special challenge because of the associated risk of the occurrence of malignancy. A case of an antenatally-detected solid/cystic lesion of the kidney diagnosed as a congenital cystic mesoblastic nephroma following nephrectomy is presented and the issues involved in therapeutic decision-making are discussed.
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