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Case Reports in Pathology
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 831403, 4 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/831403
Case Report

Papillary Renal Carcinoma Arising in an Ectopic Native Kidney and Status after Renal Transplant: A Report of a Unique Case and Review of the Literature

Xiangdong Xu1,2 and Noel Weidner2

1Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University in St. Louis, 660 South Euclid Avenue, P.O. Box 8118, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
2Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA 92103-8720, USA

Received 17 November 2012; Accepted 5 December 2012

Academic Editors: T. Hasebe, O. Hes, M. M. Picken, and N. Seki

Copyright © 2012 Xiangdong Xu and Noel Weidner. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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