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Primary Leiomyosarcoma of the Kidney: Four Cases

Author(s) -

Bahar Akkaya,

Saniye Sevim Tuncer,

Hampar Akkaya,

Elif İnanç Gürer,

Mehmet Baykara

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

bulletin of urooncology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2147-2122

pISSN - 2147-2270

DOI - 10.4274/uob.215

Subject(s) - leiomyosarcoma , primary (astronomy) , medicine , kidney , radiology , physics , astronomy

Renal sarcomas are rare tumors. They constitute only %1-2 of malignant renal tumors in adulthood. Though leiomyosarcoma is the most common histologic type of renal sarcoma (%50-60) (1). Renal leiomyosarcomas are aggressive tumors arising from the renal capsule, renal vein, pelvic musculature or the renal parenchyma. Diagnosis is usually post-operative and requires a thorough sampling of the tumor to rule out an epithelial component (2). We report new four cases of primary renal leiomyosarcomas.

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