Renal Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor: Does Age at Diagnosis Impact Outcomes?
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Renal primitive neuroectodermal tumor: does age at diagnosis impact outcomes?
Primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET) of the kidney is a rare and highly malignant neoplasm. The median age for renal PNET is 27 years but it can be seen also in a wide age range between 3 and 78 years. We performed a Medline search for the term renal PNET and identified 79 cases up till December of 2010. We report here a new case of renal PNET and a literature review for published data for ev...
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عنوان ژورنال: Rare Tumors
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2036-3613,2036-3613
DOI: 10.4081/rt.2012.e15