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nephrogenic rests

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nephrogenic rests,
remnants of renal blastema tissue found in or around the kidney, which are sometimes precursors of Wilms' tumor.


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3) The presence of cartilage in mesoblastic nephroma invokes a differential diagnosis of Wilms tumor, but features favoring Wilms tumor over mesoblastic nephroma include the presence of skeletal muscle and blastema, age older than 1 year, bilateral tumors, and nephrogenic rests.
[22] With regard to those tumors occurring in the female genital tract, the most plausible histogenetic theory relates to the occurrence of primitive nephrogenic rests.
 
 
 
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