Living Kidney Donor with Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma at the Time of Donation: A Case Report

Living kidney donor guideline recommends that donor in whom malignancy is diagnosed should be excluded. Although preoperative screening of malignancy, we experienced a case of living donor with small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL) at the time of donation. A 53-year-old woman was referred to our hospital for a kidney donation to her son. She had no past medical histories of malignancy. We screened the patient by medical examinations, but there was no obvious presence of malignancy. Although preoperative computed tomography (CT) showed a small lymph node swelling at left renal hilum, we diagnosed it as insignificant lymph node.

Source: Transplantation Proceedings - April 11, 2018 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Shuichi Tatarano, Hideki Enokida, Yasutoshi Yamada, Hiroaki Nishimura, Masayuki Nakagawa Source Type: research