Benign angiomyolipoma involving the renal vein and vena cava as a tumor thrombus: case report

Baert, Johan; Vandamme, B; Sciot, Raphael; Oyen, Raymond; Van Poppel, Hendrik; Baert, Luc

doi:10.1016/S0022-5347(01)67553-0

Benign angiomyolipoma involving the renal vein and vena cava as a tumor thrombus: case report

Author:

Baert, Johan

Vandamme, B ; Sciot, Raphael ; Oyen, Raymond ; Van Poppel, Hendrik ; Baert, Luc

Keywords:

Angiomyolipoma, Female, Humans, Kidney Neoplasms, Middle Aged, Neoplasm Circulating Cells, Renal Veins, Tomography, X-Ray Computed, Vena Cava, Inferior, lipoma, venae cavae, thrombosis, involvement, Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Urology & Nephrology, KIDNEY NEOPLASMS, LIPOMA, VENAE CAVAE, THROMBOSIS, INVOLVEMENT, Neoplastic Cells, Circulating, 1103 Clinical Sciences, 3202 Clinical sciences

Abstract:

A 53-year-old woman presented with a renal angiomyolipoma extending as a thrombus into the renal vein and vena cava. This case is most unusual and we are unaware of any report of a benign angiomyolipoma that has presented as a tumor thrombus. The intravascular growth of a benign angiomyolipoma has previously been described.