angiomyolipoma/fever

A 26 year-old woman with tuberous sclerosis who came to the Emergency Department with high fever, bilious vomit, right hemiabdomen pain and syncope during 2 weeks. Laboratory analyses show hemoglobin 6.7 g/dl, creatinine 1.5 mg/dl and leukocytes 30,000. Abdominal CT is performed because of suspicion

We report the case of a 30-year-old woman with persistent pain at the right hypochondrium, relapsing fever, and normal serum tests. Ultrasound showed a hyperechoic inhomogeneous mass; following sulfur hexafluoride injection, uniform enhancement at 14-16 s and rapid wash-out at 26 s was found.

We present a 37-year-old female with a history of tuberous sclerosis. She developed flank pain, hypotension, and a sudden drop in hemoglobin levels which prompted a work-up. A computed tomography scan demonstrated enlarged heterogeneous kidneys and a large complex collection in the right kidney,

A previously healthy 28-year-old woman presented to the emergency clinic with acute severe abdominal pain and high fever. A diagnostic laparoscopy was performed, during which a large retroperitoneal tumour was found. A CT-scan of the abdomen and thorax confirmed the presence of a retroperitoneal

Introduction: Concurrence of clear cell renal cell carcinoma and angiomyolipoma is quite rare. We report a case of large localized clear cell renal cell carcinoma with concurrent multiple angiomyolipomas mimicking lymph node

The authors report their experience of 11 cases of renal angiomyolipoma over an interval of 20 years, observed in 10 women (90.9%) and one man (9.1%) with a mean age of 46 years (range: 21 to 63). Clinical symptoms were dominated by loin pain (100%), haematuria (45.4%), lumbar mass (72.7%), fever

In 10 years the diagnosis of renal angiomyolipoma (RAML) was made in 14 patients (male-to female ratio 1:3.7) at our institution; 1 case was associated with tuberous sclerosis (TS) and 1 case had regional lymph node involvement. A statistical study was done on data taken from 739 cases of RAML in

OBJECTIVE To investigate the clinicopathologic features, diagnosis and treatment of hepatic angiomyolipoma (HAML). METHODS The clinical, histopathological, treatment and prognosis data of 51 patients treated for HAML from October 1998 to October 2007 were retrospectively analyzed. RESULTS HAML had a

Between 1982 and 1993, 6 male and 14 female patients underwent partial or total nephrectomy due to renal angiomyolipoma (AML). Presentation forms were: in 6 cases (30%) acute pain with severe haematuria or signs of visceral bleeding, 3 (15%) acute pain without other symptoms, 7 (35%) chronic pain