Leiomyoma in a Renal Allograft.

Case Rep Urol

Department of Renal Medicine, St. Vincent's Hospital, Victoria Street, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia.

Published: May 2016

Leiomyomas are smooth muscle tumours that are rarely found in the kidney. There is one report of a leiomyoma in a kidney transplant in a paediatric recipient. Here, we report an adult renal transplant recipient who developed an Epstein-Barr virus-positive leiomyoma in his allograft 15 years after transplantation. The patient was converted to everolimus for posttransplant immunosuppression management and there was no sign of progression over a year.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4852333PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/8394942DOI Listing

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