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To the Editor: Salama and Pusey (June 25 issue)¹ elegantly illustrate the renal findings in a 16-year-old girl with tuberous sclerosis, bilateral renal angiomyolipomas, and spontaneous right renal hemorrhage. She underwent a right nephrectomy. Unfortunately, she then had a solitary kidney — one that is involved with angiomyolipoma.

In 1977, transcatheter embolization was used at our institution to control renal hemorrhage in a patient with angiomyolipoma.² The patient was a 27-year-old woman with tuberous sclerosis who had undergone a right nephrectomy because of a hemorrhaging angiomyolipoma. Seven months later, she was admitted with left renal hemorrhage due to angiomyolipoma. The . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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