Morris Hannah, March Brayden, Delprado Warick, McLeod Nicholas
Department of Urology, John Hunter Hospital, New Lambton Heights, NSW, 2305, Australia.
School of Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medicine, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, 2308, Australia.
Urol Case Rep. 2020 Jan 9;30:101116. doi: 10.1016/j.eucr.2020.101116. eCollection 2020 May.
Angiomyolipoma (AML) is a benign renal tumour composed of fat, smooth muscle and blood vessels. Radiologic evidence of macroscopic fat within a solid renal lesion on computed tomography was historically thought to be pathognomonic for this condition. Herein, we report a case of an incidental solid renal cell mass with multiple foci of intra-tumoral fat, which was shown to be a clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC) at nephrectomy. Macroscopic fat within solid renal lesions does not exclude malignancy, evaluation of other radiologic features is necessary when RCC is suspected.