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Wünderlich ist nicht so Wunderbar: Bilateral Angiomyolipomas and Wünderlich Syndrome Requiring Emergency Embolization
Benjamin Howell Lole Harris1, Jason Leo Walsh2, Sarfraz Ahmed Nazir1
1Department of Radiology, Horton Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, Oxford, UK.
Abstract:
Bilateral renal angiomyolipomata are rare and usually associated with tuberous sclerosis. Renal angiomyolipomata can rupture spontaneously giving rise to (potentially catastrophic) retroperitoneal hemorrhage (Wünderlich syndrome). We present a very rare case of bilateral renal angiomyolipomata in an individual without tuberous sclerosis, presenting with life-threatening hemorrhage. The patient had emergency embolization of the bleeding angiomyolipoma and received elective embolization of a contralateral lesion. A follow-up brain magnetic resonance imaging showed no tubers but revealed a pituitary adenoma of uncertain significance.

