Department of Pediatric Surgery, Yamanashi Prefectural Central Hospital, Kofu 400-0027, Japan.
Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) associated with tuberous sclerosis (TSC) has been reported in adult patients; however, this association is rare in children. We have encountered 2 different types of RCCs in infants who developed TSC later in childhood. The pathologic diagnoses were papillary RCC in one infant and a clear cell-type RCC in the other. Gene analysis showed that both the patients had a mutation in TSC2 gene on chromosome 16.
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Reference: J Pediatr Surg. 2011 Oct;46(10):E37-41.
doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2011.06.035
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PMID: 22008361
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