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A case of primary retroperitoneal lipomatous ganglioneuroma

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A lipomatous ganglioneuroma is a rare variant of a ganglioneuroma. This case study describes a primary retroperitoneal lipomatous ganglioneuroma discovered in the course of our clinical work. The case involved a 50-year-old male. The patient was referred to our hospital for tumor resection. Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging revealed an imaging of 8 cm tumor adhering to the left renal artery. We constructed a three-dimensional organ model with a three-dimensional printer according to CT data and, upon confirming strong adhesion to the renal artery and kidney, performed a laparoscopic radical nephrectomy of the left kidney. The mass was diagnosed as a lipomatous ganglioneuroma by pathological assessment including immunohistochemistry. This is the third known report of a retroperitoneal lipomatous ganglioneuroma. This case allowed us to experience an extremely rare lipomatous ganglioneuroma.

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  1. Department of Urology, Teikyo University School of Medicine, 2-11-1 Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 173-8605, Japan

    Kosuke Kitamura, Hisamitsu Ide, Hirofumi Shimoyama, Yasuhiro Noma, Shuji Isotani, Raizo Yamaguchi & Satoru Muto

  2. Department of Pathology, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

    Yoshihisa Takahashi & Shigeki Morita

  3. Department of Urology, Juntendo University, Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

    Shigeo Horie

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Kitamura, K., Ide, H., Shimoyama, H. et al. A case of primary retroperitoneal lipomatous ganglioneuroma. Int Canc Conf J 4, 143–146 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13691-014-0187-1

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