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Table 1 Clinical-characteristics, radiographic and pathologic features of primary teratoma of the kidney

From: Primary renal teratoma: a rare entity

Source, year

 Side

Age

Sex

Clinical presentation

Radiographic features of renal mass

Components of teratoma

Kojiro et al., [6]

 Left kidney

40 years

Male

Epigastric pain, nausea, no carcinoid syndrome

IVU: Marked dilatation of left renal pelvis

Mucous secretory glands, columnar epithelium, mature hyaline cartilage, smooth muscle

Fetissof et al., [7]

 Right kidney

65 years

Male

Fever, no carcinoid syndrome

IVU: Displaced left kidney and non-visualized right kidney

Transitional and mucinous columnar epithelium, smooth muscle, ossified chondroid plaques, nerve bundles with ganglion cells

Lodding et al., [8]

 Right kidney

23 years

Male

Abdominal pain, no carcinoid syndrome

CT: Calcification in horseshoe kidney

Mature bone

LIU et al., [5]

 Left kidney

2 years

Female

Poor appetite and poor activity 1 week in duration

CT: Huge tumor in the left kidney with calcification and necrosis

Yolk sac tumor and immature teratoma

Singer et a.l, [9]

 Left kidney

2 months

Male

Constipation and a palpable left flank mass

CT : Heterogeneous upper pole left renal neoplasm

Mature teratoma with rare

foci of immature elements

Govender et al., [10]

 Right kidney

3 years

Female

Bilateral coarse crackles and a wheeze. Abdominal distension

CT: Large tumour involving The right side of the abdomen

Mature renal teratoma and a synchronous malignant neuroepithelial tumour of the ipsilateral adrenal gland

Otani et al., 2001 [11]

 Left kidney

6 years

Male

Mass of a left side abdominal

CT: Multiple cystic masses

Keratinizing squamous epithelium with hair follicles, shafts and sebaceous glands. atrophy of the adjacent renal parenchyma, with partially dysplastic and angiomyolipoma

Yoo et al., [12]

 Left kidney

30 years

Female

Abdominal pain, no carcinoid syndrome

CT: Dense calcification with minimal contrast enhancement

Mucinous columnar epithelium, smooth muscle, mature bone

Yaqoob et al., [13]

 Left kidney

2 months

Female

Firm mass on left side of the abdomen, which was crossing to the right side as well

X-ray : soft tissue mass with areas of calcification Ultrasound : complex mass partly cystic and partly solid

Cystic spaces lined by keratinizing stratified squamous epithelium with skin adnexae

Kim et al., [14]

 Right kidney

39 years

Female

Asymptomatic, incidental renal mass, no carcinoid syndrome

CT: mass relatively well demarcated and incompletely marginated by a thin hypodense rim with globular calcifications

Mucinous columnar and Pseudostratified columnar epithelium with occasional cilia, mature bone

Kurzer et al., [15]

 Right kidney

58 years

Female

Asymptomatic, incidental renal mass, no carcinoid syndrome

CT: Round mass, smooth, and well marginated, with two solid clumps of calcifications

Transitional, colonic, squamous, and nonspecific cuboidal epithelium, mature adipose, focal osseous metaplasia

Choi et al., [16]

 Right kidney

4 years

Female

Right-sided abdominal mass

US : tumor with intermediate echogenicity and an ovoid, hypoechoic central region

Adipose tissue. squamous epithelial with abundant keratinous flakes. pilosebaceous adnexal elements

Ledo et al., [17]

 Left kidney

4 months

Male

Left -sided abdominal mass

CT: Heterogeneous tumor, amorphous calcifications

Mature teratoma

Kyoko et al., [18]

 Right kidney

6 days

Female

Hard mass of 6 × 6 cm in diameter, in the right upper abdomen

CT: mass containing low-density areas from the isthmus to the right lower pole of a horseshoe kidney

Mature tissu contained neuroepithelial components

Henry B Armah et al., [19]

 Right kidney

35 years

Female

Right flank pain, right costovertebral angle tenderness, no carcinoid syndrome

CT: Exophytic, round, well-circumscribed mildly complex hypodense with globular calcifications

Urothelial-type and colonic epithelium,focal mature bone

Madhumita et al., [20]

 Right kidney

1 month

Male

Mass in the right side of theabdomen since birth

CT: soft tissue density mass with fat and fluid components arising from the right kidney. Multiple calcifications duplication of the cecum and Appendix

Mature benign teratoma

Current case

 Left kidney

6 months

Female

Abdominal distension and pain

US: pelvic left kidney measuring 18 cms in diameter with an important expansion of the excretory cavities and internal cystic and solid changes CT: mass containing low-density areas of the left kidney

keratinizing stratified squamous epithelium with skin adnexae, cartilage, mucinous columnar epithelium,bone, melanin containing cells and neuroglial cells with occasional foci of immature neuroectodermal tissue

  1. IVU IntraVenous Urography, CT Computed tomography, US ultrasonography.