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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-4-21
pubmed:abstractText
The pathogenesis of primary renal carcinoid tumor is unknown. One hypothesis has implied derivation from a yet unrecognized intrinsic neuroendocrine cell in the renal parenchyma/hilum either as a minute endocrineparacrine constituent or resulting from entrapped/misplaced progenitor cells of the so-called dispersed neuroendocrine system during organogenesis. Immunohistochemical staining for chromogranin and serotonin was systematically performed on a whole-mount and geographically mapped normal adult kidney, kidneys from 15 fetuses (age range: 15 to 38 weeks), and renal specimens from 18 infants/children (age range: 7 days to 123 months). Minute paraganglion nests (composed of chromogranin positive/serotonin negative chief cells and S-100 protein positive dendritic cells) were incidentally detected within the renal hilum primitive stroma (unilaterally) of two fetuses at 22 and 26 weeks. Sequestration and persistence of such paraganglion nests during renal growth and maturation would offer a basis for the rare occurrence of extra-adrenal paraganglioma involving the renal hilum/pedicle. Otherwise, no neuroendocrine cell was detected within the renal parenchyma or hilum, therefore not validating/sustaining the aforementioned hypothesis in the pathogenesis of renal carcinoid tumor.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0344-0338
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
195
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
25-30
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Searching for an intrinsic neuroendocrine cell in the kidney. An immunohistochemical study of the fetal, infantile and adult kidney.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Urology, Montreal General Hospital Research Institute, McGill University, Canada.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article