Renal schwannoma: A case report and literature review of a rare and benign entity mimicking an invasive renal neoplasm.

Schwannomas of the kidney are rare with only a handful of cases reported in literature. We present a case of a large Schwannoma of the right kidney causing mass effect with imaging characteristics thought to represent renal cell carcinoma. On imaging, these masses present similarly to solid renal masses and are therefore indistinguishable without tissue diagnosis.

Prognostic Value of Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio in Penile Squamous Cell Carcinoma Patients Undergoing Inguinal Lymph Node Dissection.

Background: Further biomarkers are warranted to improve prognostic stratification of penile squamous cell carcinoma (PSCC) patients undergoing inguinal lymph node dissection (ILND).

Objective: To assess the prognostic value of pretreatment neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) in PSCC patients undergoing ILND and to investigate its role in predicting pathologic node-positive (pN+) disease.

Design, Setting, And Participants: In total, 84 consecutive patients undergoing ILND for PSCC at our institution between 1994 and 2014 were identified.

Survival Outcomes Associated With Female Primary Urethral Carcinoma: Review of a Single Institutional Experience.

Background: Primary urethral carcinoma (PUC) is rare, and standard treatment recommendations are lacking. We examined the variation in treatments and survival outcomes of female PUC at a single, tertiary referral cancer center.

Methods: Records of women with PUC referred to our multidisciplinary genitourinary oncology service between 2003 and 2017 were reviewed.

Dynamics of Human Cytomegalovirus Infection in CD34+ Hematopoietic Cells and Derived Langerhans-Type Dendritic Cells.

Unlabelled: Acquisition of human cytomegalovirus (CMV) usually occurs by contact between contaminated bodily fluids, such as urine and saliva, and host mucosal cells. Langerhans-type dendritic cells (LC) are the only type of immune cells found in the outermost layers of the oral mucosae, where they not only provide a first line of defense against CMV but can easily be targeted by orally administered vaccines, while their bone marrow resident progenitors are important sites of virus latency. In this work, we tracked the progress of infection in CD34(+) progenitor cells, immature LC (iLC), and mature LC (mLC) exposed to the clinical-like strain TB40-BAC4 or to the vaccine strain AD169varATCC, prior to their long-term maintenance under either immature or mature conditions.