Renal angiomyolipoma: Clinico-pathologic study of 17 cases with emphasis on the epithelioid histology and p53 gene abnormalities.

Abstract

Epithelioid angiomyolipoma (EAML) is a rare potentially malignant variant of renal angiomyolipoma (RAML). This study aims to determine whether RAML clinico-pathologic and molecular features (i.e. p53 gene abnormalities) differ significantly with regards to its histologic variant or to the presence of an epithelioid component within it.