Case Reports in Clinical Practice (Jun 2017)

Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor (PNET): A Rare Tumor in Differential Diagnosis of Renal Mass in Adolescences

  • Farzad Allameh,
  • Hamidreza Qashqai,
  • Farideh Mousavi,
  • Ali Asghar Halimi Asl,
  • Amirhossein Rahavian

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 4

Abstract

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A thirteen-year-old boy with a right flank mass and painless gross hematuria is presented. The patient underwent open biopsy and the result was a huge primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET) of right kidney. Radical nephrectomy was performed for him and the treatment process continued with systemic chemotherapy.

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