Takashi Kawahara, Zenkichi Sekiguchi, Kazuhide Makiyama, Takashi Nakayama, Yoji Nagashima, Kaoru Kita, Kazuhiro Namura, Hiroki Itou, Futoshi Sano, Narihiko Hayashi, Noboru Nakaigawa, Takehiko Ogawa, Hiroji Uemura, Masahiro Yao, Yoshinobu Kubota
The case was a 40-year-old female. She visited a local doctor with a chief complaint of right side abdominal pain. A right kidney tumor measuring 10 cm in diameter was observed in an abdominal Computed Tomography (CT) scan. Based on the CT image, the possibility of angiomiolipoma (AML) could not be ruled out, but a high maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax) of 7.8 was observed in a Positron Emission Tomography CT (PET-CT) scan and there was a possibility of malignancy. We therefore performed a transperitoneal right radial nephrectomy...
October 14, 2009: Case Reports in Oncology