[Renal lymphangioma]. / Linfangioma renal.

OBJECTIVES: To report a rare case of renal lymphangioma in a 30-year-old female consulting with left flank pain. METHODS: We perform a bibliographic review and present the clinical, radiological and pathologic features. RESULTS: The patient underwent surgical treatment: radical nephrectomy. Final pathology report showed a renal lymphangioma. CONCLUSIONS: Renal lymphangioma is a mesenchymal tumor of benign behavior which poses several diagnostic difficulties, both radiologically and histologically. This tumor may be confused with other renal tumors, including clear cell renal carcinoma.

Linfangioma renal / Renal lymphangioma

OBJETIVO: Presentar un caso inusual de linfangiomarenal, en una mujer de 30 años quien consultópor dolor en el flanco izquierdo.MÉTODOS: Revisión de la literatura, presentación y discusiónde los hallazgos clínicos, radiológicos y de histopatología.RESULTADOS: La paciente es llevada a tratamiento quirúrgico,nefrectomía radical, con diagnóstico de lesión tumoralmaligna, el resultado patológico final fue linfangiomarenal.CONCLUSIÓN: El linfangioma renal es un tumor mesenquimatosode comportamiento benigno y que presentaciertas dificultades diagnósticas, tanto radiográfica comomicroscópicamente. Este tumor puede ser confundido conotros tumores renales, incluyendo el carcinoma de célulasrenales

OBJECTIVES: To report a rare case of renal ;;lymphangioma in a 30-year-old female consulting with left ;;flank pain. ;;METHODS: We perform a bibliographic review and present ;;the clinical, radiological and pathologic features. ;;RESULTS: The patient underwent surgical treatment: radical ;;nephrectomy. Final pathology report showed a renal ;;lymphangioma. ;;CONCLUSIONS: Renal lymphangioma is a mesenchymal ;;tumor of benign behavior which poses several diagnostic ;;difficulties, both radiologically and histologically. This ;;tumor may be confused with other renal tumors, including ;;clear cell renal carcinoma