Cytological features of a renal angiomyolipoma in a child—A case report

Abstract

Angiomyolipoma (AML) earlier thought to be a hamartomatous lesion is now considered as a rare neoplasm of the kidney. A 6-year-old child presented with an abdominal mass.CT scans showed a multiloculated mass with variable attenuation raising the possibility of AML. FNAC done from the lesion also suggested possibility of AML, which was later confirmed on the histology of the resected specimen. There is sparse literature available describing the cytologic diagnosis of AML in children. Hence, we take this opportunity to describe the cytological findings of a case of pediatric renal AML. K E Y W O R D Sangiomyolipma, FNAC, pediatric age group

Is There a Higher Incidence of Sporadic Renal Angiomyolipoma in Childhood Cancer Survivors?

“…Despite our smaller cohort, the occurrence of SAMLs in CCSs was conclusively higher, ie at least 10 times higher (according to the conservative and almost certainly underestimated observed frequency) than that in the general population. Moreover, the CCSs in our sample were substantially younger than the ages reported in other studies in “non-cancer populations” (median age, CCSs vs general population: 27.9 years vs 50–60 years), 1 , 3 , 5 , 7 , 14 , 16 which is another reason to expect the occurrence of SAML in CCSs to be in fact even higher after the CCSs reach a comparable age.…”