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Cystic nephroma is a benign multicystic renal tumor. Contrary to the cystic partially differentiated nephroblastoma, it possesses no blastemal component in histology and can be found in adults too.
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Schwab, M. (2015). Cystic Nephroma. In: Schwab, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Cancer. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27841-9_1455-2
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