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Case Report Unilateral Hypoplastic Kidney and Ureter Associated with Diverse Mesonephric Remnant Hyperplasia Am J Clin Exp Urol 2015;3(2):107-111 www.ajceu.us /ISSN:2330-1910/AJCEU0009935 Case Report Unilateral hypoplastic kidney and ureter associated with diverse mesonephric remnant hyperplasia Guang-Qian Xiao1, Jean-Gilles Jerome1, Guan Wu2 Departments of 1Pathology, 2Urology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA Received May 5, 2015; Accepted July 17, 2015; Epub August 8, 2015; Published August 15, 2015 Abstract: Mesonephric remnants have been rarely reported in the genitourinary system and sometimes impose a diagnostic challenge both clinically and pathologically. We reported a case of mesonephric remnant hyperplasia with mixed acinar/tubular and epididymis/vas deferens-like morphologies occurring in the renal parenchyma of a unilateral hypoplastic kidney, which has not been previously described. Keywords: Mesonephric remnant, kidney, hypoplasia Introduction Clinical history Mesonephric ducts (also known as Wolffian This was a 33 year-old male patient who pre- ducts) are a pair of embryonic organ. In male, sented with a new onset of gross hematuria 3 portions of each duct differentiate into epididy- months ago. He was admitted to the emergency mis, vas deferens, and seminal vesicles under room. CAT scan of the abdomen and pelvis the influence of testosterone. In female, the revealed a severely atrophic right kidney with structures usually regress completely [1, 2]. remarkably dilated proximal hydroureter and Not infrequently mesonephric rests or rem- mid ureter with thickened wall. It was felt by the nants can be found in both male and female radiologist that this was ureteritis and presence pelvic organs. In male, the mesonephric rem- of a mass lesion in the right ureter could not be nants persist as appendix of the epididymis excluded. Cystoscopy retrograde pyelogram and paradidymis in efferent ductules. In female, demonstrated that the right ureter (presumed the mesonephric remnants can present as to be hypoplastic) with severe stricture in the epoophoron and Skene’s glands as well as mid-distal portion and remarkable proximal Gartner’s duct or cyst [1-3]. Rare locations of hydroureter. The right kidney was very small the mesonephric remnants have been reported and atrophic/hypoplastic with faintly visualized in male, including renal pelvis, spermatic cord, renal pelvo-calyceal system. The function of the vas deferens, urethra and prostate [4-7]. These right kidney was less than 2%. No imaging inclusions/remnants usually represent inno- abnormalities were found in the left kidney and cent traces of the development process with- ureter. His hematuria stopped on the second out association with structural abnormalities of day as he was pushing fluids. No imaging exami- the organ where they reside. Although it has nation was recorded prior to this admission. He been described in the renal pelvis in a case denied flank/abdominal pain, fever, and urinary report, mesonephric remnant inside renal difficulty. He had no history of frequent urinary parenchyma has never been reported. Herein tract infection, prior gross hematuria, urinary we described a case of renal medullary meso- incontinence or stone disease. A right robotic nephric remnant hyperplasia with mixed tubu- nephrectomy was performed. The postopera- lar and ductal morphologies and in association tive course was uneventful and he was dis- with unilateral renal and ureteral hypoplasia. charged to home one day after surgery. Unilateral hypoplastic kidney and ureter associated with diverse mesonephric remnants Figure 1. A. Mesonephric remnants are organized in a lobular pattern and located in renal medulla. B. Epididymis/ vas deferens-like mesonephric remnants are surrounded by a coat of dense and cellular stroma. C. Acinar/tubu- lar type mesonephric remnants are rounded in shape and variable in size with intraluminal colloid-like material. D. CD10 stains the brush border of epididymis/vas deferens-like ducts and surrounding stroma. Acinar/tubular type mesonephric remnants are negative for CD10. E. GATA3 immunoreacts with the epididymis/vas deferens-like epithelium and some of the acinar/tubular type epithelia. F. PAX8 is immunoreactive with both epididymis/vas deferens-like and acinar/tubular type epithelia. 108 Am J Clin Exp Urol 2015;3(2):107-111 Unilateral hypoplastic kidney and ureter associated with diverse mesonephric remnants Table 1. Immunohistochemical profiles of the mesonephric remnants Mesonephric remnants CD10 GATA3 P63 PAX8 ER SMA WT-1 Acinar/tubular type epithelium - Some + - + - - - Some - Epididymis/vas deferens-like epithelium + (brush border) + + (basal cell only) + - - - Remnant-associated stroma + - - - + + - +. Positive. -. Negative. Material and methods shape but variable in size and arranged in a lobular growth pattern with intraluminal colloid- A right radical nephrectomy specimen with like material (Figure 1C). Some of them were associated surrounding soft tissue was also associated with dense and cellular stroma. received. The specimen contained a 15 cm in The ureter was hypoplastic with focal muscular length and 2.7 cm in diameter proximal dilated hypertrophy. No mass formation or heteroge- ureter. The distal ureter displayed a stricture, neous mesenchymal elements was identified in the lumen of which was less than 0.2 cm in the kidney and ureter. diameter. The ureter had a tan-white, slightly granular, and glistening urothelium with focal On immunohistochemistry, CD10 was strongly areas of congestion. Sectioning of the speci- reactive with the brush border of the epididy- men revealed a 6 × 1.5 × 1.5 cm atrophic/ mis/vas deferens-like epithelia as well as the hypoplastic kidney. The renal parenchyma was stroma and non-reactive with the acinar/tubu- predominantly gray-white and granular with lar type epithelia (Figure 1D). ER and SMA only normal appearance. The cortical-medullary reacted with their associated stroma. P63 was junction was ill-defined and tan-brown to white. only reactive with the basal cells in the epididy- Representative sections were submitted for mis/vas deferens-like epithelia. GATA-3 reacted histologic examination. with the epididymis/vas deferens-like epithelia and some of the acinar/tubular-type epithelia Results (Figure 1E). Both the epithelial and stroma cells of these aberrant structures were negative for Microscopically the renal cortical parenchyma WT-1. PAX8 was strongly reactive with both the was remarkably thin and hypoplastic, with oth- epididymis/vas deferens-like and acinar/tubu- erwise normal anatomic and histologic neph- lar type epithelia (Figure 1F). These immuno- rons. The medulla was also markedly attenuat- histochemical results supported their meso- ed and distorted by multiple foci of aberrant nephric origin, and in conjunction with the his- ductal as well as aberrant tubular/acinar struc- tomorphology, a diagnosis was made as: hypo- tures which were organized in a lobular fashion plastic kidney and ureter with medullary meso- (Figure 1A). These aberrant elements occupied nephric remnant hyperplasia with mixed acinar/ half of the medulla and extended into the renal tubular and epididymis/vas deferens-like mor- pelvis. The epithelial linings of the ductal struc- phology. The immunohistochemical results are tures were composed of a layer of ciliated short summarized in Table 1. columnar cells with amophilic cytoplasm. The nuclei were oval to elongated and uniform with- Discussion out atypia. Underneath was a layer of small basal cells with scant clear cytoplasm. This Mesonephric ducts play an imperative role in morphology resembled that of epididymis and the development of the urinary and male repro- vas deferens. Most of these epididymis/vas ductive system, which include the ureter, renal deferens-like ductal structures were surround- pelvis, collecting tubules, ductus deferens, ed by a coat of dense and cellular stroma ejaculatory ducts, and seminal vesicle. Most of (Figure 1B). There were also scattered aberrant the embryonic mesonephric ducts are eventu- acinar/tubular structures, which were lined by ally replaced by metanephric ducts to form the single layer of un-ciliated uniform small cuboid permanent kidney. Although rarely, mesoneph- cells with pale to amophilic cytoplasm. These ric remnant has been reported in the renal aberrant acini/tubules were frequently round in pelvis, spermatic cord, vas deferens, urethra, 109 Am J Clin Exp Urol 2015;3(2):107-111 Unilateral hypoplastic kidney and ureter associated with diverse mesonephric remnants prostate and prostatic urethra [4-7]. Most of might be just an incidental concurrent process, the reported mesonephric remnants are com- however, it cannot be excluded that the devel- posed of small acini/tubule lined by cuboidal to opment of hypoplasia might have affected the low columnar epithelium. More recently epidid- regression process of some portion of the ymis-like mesonephric remnants have also mesonephric ducts. Renal hypoplasia must be been reported in the prostate [8, 9]. In this differentiated from acquired atrophic kidney, case study, we described a mixed acinar/tubu- which is small and contracted. In this case, lar and epididymis/vas deferens-like meso- since parenchyma atrophy is not present, nephric remnant proliferation in association mesonephric remnant as a cause of the small with a unilateral hypoplastic kidney and ureter, kidney seems unlikely, but it certainly could which has not been documented before. These have impaired the renal function. two distinct mesonephric elements likely repre- sented embryonic residues
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