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Case Reports
. 2006 Aug;13(8):1112-4.
doi: 10.1111/j.1442-2042.2006.01490.x.

Early diagnosis and straight forward surgery of an asymptomatic primary angiosarcoma of the kidney led to long-term survival

Thomas Akkad  1 , Alexandar Tsankov, Alexandre Pelzer, Reinhard Peschel, Georg Bartsch, Hannes Steiner
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Case Reports

Early diagnosis and straight forward surgery of an asymptomatic primary angiosarcoma of the kidney led to long-term survival

Thomas Akkad et al. Int J Urol. 2006 Aug.

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.

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