[Metanephric adenoma. Case report]
Concepción Lara1, Virginia Porras, Pilar Jurado
1Servicio de Anatomía Patológica, Hospital Infanta Elena, Ctra Sevilla Huelva s/n 21080 Huelva, España. clarab@andaluciajunta.es
Archivos Espanoles De Urologia
|December 14, 2007
Abstract
Objective:
Metanephric adenoma is an unfrequent renal neoplasm, usually asymptomatic. Differential diagnosis with other renal tumors has to be performed.
Methods/Results:
We report the case of a 67 years old woman with a metanephric adenoma.
Conclusions:
Metanephric tumors comprise a pathologic spectrum of lesions. At one end of the pathologic spectrum are the metanephric adenomas. These tumors usually behave in a benign fashion. It is important to differentiate metanephric adenoma from clinically aggressive renal tumors.