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Renal leiomyoma associated with Epstein-Barr virus in a pediatric transplant patient.

Dionne JM, Carter JE, Matsell D, MacNeily AE, Morrison KB, de Sa D

Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Department of Pathology, British Columbia's Children's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. jdionne@cw.bc.ca

Renal leiomyoma is a rare smooth muscle tumor of the kidney. An association between Epstein-Barr virus and smooth muscle tumors in immunocompromised patients recently has been recognized. We describe a pediatric renal transplant patient who developed an Epstein-Barr virus-associated renal leiomyoma in his transplant kidney 5 years posttransplantation. Possible factors involved in the tumor pathogenesis in our patient are discussed, including immunosuppression, growth hormone therapy, and Epstein-Barr virus induction.

Published 22 August 2005 in Am J Kidney Dis, 46(2): 351-5.
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