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Treatment of idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis by immunosuppression
1Department of Urology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37232-2765.
The Journal of Urology
|January 11, 1991
Abstract:
Idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis is exceedingly uncommon in childhood and its etiology is uncertain. Support for an immunological basis for the disease is given by a report of a 14-year-old girl with severe retroperitoneal fibrosis causing progressive azotemia in whom azathioprine and prednisolone were used successfully. This case supports the efficacy of immunotherapy in the treatment of idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis.