Renal Cell Carcinoma in a Pregnant Woman with Horseshoe Kidney January-March 2016, Volume 03, Number 1
Anna Scavuzzo, Zael Santana Rios, Cristobal Díaz-Gómez, Beatriz Varguez-González, Victor Osornio-Sánchez, Edgar Bravo-Castro, Edgar Linden-Castro, Pedro Martínez-Cervera and Miguel Angel Jiménez-Ríos Department of Urology, Instituto Nacional de Cancerología (INCan), Mexico City, Mexico
Kidney cancer is rare during pregnancy; to our knowledge, this is the first reported case of renal cell carcinoma in horseshoe kidney diagnosed in the second trimester of pregnancy. We performed open radical nephrectomy when the pregnancy was completed.
Key words:
Clear cell carcinoma. Horseshoe. Nephrectomy. Pregnancy.