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Original article| Volume 21, ISSUE 3, P200-202, May 1997

Massive renal angiomyolipoma in tuberous sclerosis

  • Douglas S. Katz
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    Address reprint requests to: Douglas S. Katz, MD, Department of Radiology, Health Science Center at Syracuse, University Hospital, 750 East Adams Street, Syracuse, NY 13210.
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    Department of Radiology, Health Science Center at Syracuse, University Hospital, Syracuse, New York, USA
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  • Robert B. Poster
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    Department of Radiology, Health Science Center at Syracuse, University Hospital, Syracuse, New York, USA
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      Abstract

      A massive renal angiomyolipoma, measuring 45 × 20 × 15 cm and weighing 3,500 g in a patient with tuberous sclerosis is presented. While renal angiomyolipomas may become quite large, this is one of the largest such tumors ever reported.

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