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- Title
Malignant mixed epithelial and stromal tumours of the kidney: a report of the first two cases with a fatal clinical outcome.
- Authors
Nakagawa, T.; Kanai, Y.; Fujimoto, H.; Kitamura, H.; Furukawa, H.; Maeda, S.; Oyama, T.; Takesaki, T.; Hasegawa, T.
- Abstract
The article discusses stromal tumors of the kidney. Mixed epithelial and stromal tumor of the kidney (MESTIK), a rare benign neoplasm of unknown aetiology, is a recently established entity unifying several neoplasms such as adult mesoblastic nephroma, cystic hamartoma of the pelvis, adult type cystic nephroma, multilocular renal cysts, and solid and cystic biphasic tumour of the kidney. In cases reported as MESTK, recurrence or fatal outcome has, to date, never been reported. In a case study of a 43 year old Japanese woman, nine months after extirpation of the recurrent tumour, she developed another local recurrence, associated with severe hemorrhage which could not be sufficiently controlled even by three trials of transarterial embolization.
- Subjects
TUMORS; ETIOLOGY of diseases; EPITHELIAL cells; CYSTIC kidney disease; CANCER; PATHOLOGY
- Publication
Histopathology, 2004, Vol 44, Issue 3, p302
- ISSN
0309-0167
- Publication type
Letter
- DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2559.2004.01782.x