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Papillary renal cell carcinoma in a child
A Wakhlu1, A Kumar, A N Srivastava
1Department of Pediatric Surgery, CSM Medical University, Lucknow, India. ashish_wakhlu@hotmail.com
Aim:
To report a case of papillary renal cell carcinoma in a pediatric patient.
Method:
A seven-year-old boy complained of hematuria for one year. CT scan showed a mass in the middle zone of the right kidney. Radical nephrectomy was performed without incident.
Result:
Histology of the specimen showed papillary renal cell carcinoma. As the tumor was stage one, no chemotherapy was offered. At follow-up after 6 months the child was without recurrence or metastases.
Conclusions:
Papillary renal cell carcinoma is an uncommon kidney tumor in children and in its early stages it can be cured by nephrectomy alone.
