Lymphoma of the kidney

PubMed, the Internet portal of biomedical and life sciences literature, indexed an interesting article, entitled “Lymphoma of the kidney: Primary or initial manifestation of rapidly progressive systemic disease?” (Int Urol Nephrol. 2006 Nov 16). Authors are Tefekli A, Baykal M, Binbay M, et al., from the Department of Urology, Haseki Teaching and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey. Primary renal lymphoma is a controversial and rare disease. There is no agreement whether or not it is an initial manifestation of a rapidly systemic disease. The authors present a 7l-year-old woman, initially diagnosed with primary non-Hodgkin lymphoma of the kidney, but was lost 4 months after radical nephrectomy due to systemic disease despite aggressive chemotherapy, and suggest that, the kidney of the patient was the initial presenting site of a rapidly progressive systemic disease. To access the full abstract of the article, click here.