Sarcoma
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 504654, 5 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/504654
Clinical Study

Primary Adult Renal Ewing's Sarcoma: A Rare Entity

Ravindra Mukkunda,1 Ramachandran Venkitaraman,1 Khin Thway,2 Toon Min,3 Cyril Fisher,2 Alan Horwich,1 and Ian Judson4

1Urology Unit, Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5PT, UK
2Department of Anatomical Pathology, Royal Marsden Hospital, Fulham Rd, London SW3 6JJ, UK
3Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5PT, UK
4Sarcoma Unit, Royal Marsden Hospital, Fulham Rd, London SW3 6JJ, UK

Received 8 October 2008; Revised 12 January 2009; Accepted 13 March 2009

Academic Editor: Quincy Chu

Copyright © 2009 Ravindra Mukkunda et al. 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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