Retroperitoneal cystic lymphangioma.
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Murine typhus is a rickettsial infection that remains endemic in parts of Texas and California. Clinical manifestations of the infection are due to vasculitis. In a patient who acquired the infection in the United States, computed tomography demonstrated intrasplenic pseudoaneurysms, infarcts, and hemorrhage.
In a young woman with clinical evidence of acute cutaneous, musculoskeletal, and neurologic manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus, computed tomography (CT) showed enlarged, centrally hypoattenuating mesenteric and retroperitoneal lymph nodes. After treatment with steroids, the CT appearance of the lymph nodes returned to normal. The differential diagnosis of lymph nodes with central hypoattenuation includes Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, metastatic disease (especially squamous cell carcinoma and germ cell tumor), Whipple's disease, and celiac disease in addition to lupus lymphadenitis.
A21-year-old man with a history of tuberous sclerosis and hematuria was found to have multiple renal angiomyolipomas and a highly malignant epithelioid renal angiomyolipoma. Radiologic and pathologic findings are described.