2006
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2006.04.016
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Fat Poor Renal Angiomyolipoma: Patient, Computerized Tomography and Histological Findings

Abstract: We suggest that a general definition of fat poor angiomyolipoma should be the failure of imaging to reveal fat within a lesion, thus, making it unsuspected at surgery. A pathological definition should be less than 25% fat per high power field, which to our knowledge is a formerly undefined quantity. Not all cases are hyperdense on nonenhanced computerized tomography. These lesions cannot be reliably identified by imaging and they should be managed like all enhancing renal masses.

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“…Classic AML is the most fre- quent and easily diagnosed by the detection of fat on imaging. 2 Fat poor AML, which is divided into hyperattenuating type and isoattenuating type 26 is less frequent and contains too few fat cells to be detected with imaging 2,26 (Fig. 5).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Classic AML is the most fre- quent and easily diagnosed by the detection of fat on imaging. 2 Fat poor AML, which is divided into hyperattenuating type and isoattenuating type 26 is less frequent and contains too few fat cells to be detected with imaging 2,26 (Fig. 5).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We expect that the specificity achieved in clinical practice may be lowered by the number of lipid poor angiomyolipomas encountered in a given series [38]. However, these tumors are relatively rare, at less than 2% of all surgically excised masses [39]. Furthermore, CSI quantitative MR techniques can also provide a degree of characterization for lipid poor angiomyolipomas [38].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…22 In fact, radiologic techniques using enhancement patterns and histogram analysis at CT and chemical shift MRI remain controversial to rule out RCC in histologically proven fat poor angiomyolipomas. [136][137][138] A solid renal tumor without fat content on imaging studies is regarded as RCC and treated as such. 138 Microscopically, angiomyolipomas are very cellular consisting mainly of myoid cells with vacuolated cytoplasm spinning off of large vessels in a background of mature fat.…”
Section: Benign Neoplasms Angiomyolipomamentioning
confidence: 99%