Laparoscopic nephrectomy for the management of renal medullary carcinoma in a child
Paul M Milhoua1, Philip T Koi, A A Hakimi
1Department of Urology, Montefiore Medical/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 3400 Bainbridge Avenue, 5th floor, Bronx, NY 10467, USA. pmilhoua@montefiore.org
Journal of Pediatric Urology
|July 18, 2008
Abstract:
Renal medullary carcinoma is a lethal subtype of renal cancer that afflicts patients with sickle-cell hemoglobinopathies. Here we present the case of a 13-year-old boy with renal medullary carcinoma who is the first, to our knowledge, to be managed using a planned laparoscopic radical nephrectomy.


