Early diagnosis and straight forward surgery of an asymptomatic primary angiosarcoma of the kidney led to long-term survival
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- 26 July 2006
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wiley in International Journal of Urology
- Vol. 13 (8), 1112-1114
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1442-2042.2006.01490.x
Abstract
We report the first case of a diagnosis of an asymptomatic primary renal angiosarcoma. The patient underwent laparoscopic nephrectomy and is alive after long‐term follow up. We provide the preoperative imaging studies and the histologic features of this exceedingly rare tumor.Keywords
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