Banks K L, Cherullo E E, Novick A C
Cleveland Clinic Urological Institute, Section of Urologic Oncology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Urology. 2001 Feb;57(2):365. doi: 10.1016/s0090-4295(00)00913-4.
We report the largest renal oncocytoma excised at the initial presentation and the second largest renal oncocytoma in published reports. Despite a tendency for renal oncocytomas to be relatively small and asymptomatic compared with renal cell carcinomas, these lesions cannot be reliably differentiated preoperatively. The variable nature of presentation and overlap of radiographic characteristics between these lesions complicates their clinical differentiation. The present case illustrates the difficulty in the preoperative diagnosis of even very large, enhancing renal masses and reinforces the inclusion of renal oncocytoma in the differential diagnosis of these lesions.
我们报告了在初次就诊时切除的最大的肾嗜酸细胞瘤以及已发表报告中第二大的肾嗜酸细胞瘤。尽管与肾细胞癌相比,肾嗜酸细胞瘤往往相对较小且无症状,但这些病变在术前无法可靠地区分。这些病变表现的多变性以及影像学特征的重叠使其临床鉴别变得复杂。本病例说明了即使是非常大的、有强化的肾肿块在术前诊断也存在困难,并强调在这些病变的鉴别诊断中应考虑肾嗜酸细胞瘤。