Difference between revisions of "Mixed epithelial and stromal tumour of the kidney"

'''Mixed epithelial and stromal tumour of the kidney''', abbreviated '''MEST''', is a rare benign [[kidney tumour]] in the [[WHO]] classification of renal neoplasia.

Turbiner ''et al.''<ref name=pmid17414095>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Turbiner | first1 = J. | last2 = Amin | first2 = MB. | last3 = Humphrey | first3 = PA. | last4 = Srigley | first4 = JR. | last5 = De Leval | first5 = L. | last6 = Radhakrishnan | first6 = A. | last7 = Oliva | first7 = E. | title = Cystic nephroma and mixed epithelial and stromal tumor of kidney: a detailed clinicopathologic analysis of 34 cases and proposal for renal epithelial and stromal tumor (REST) as a unifying term. | journal = Am J Surg Pathol | volume = 31 | issue = 4 | pages = 489-500 | month = Apr | year = 2007 | doi = 10.1097/PAS.0b013e31802bdd56 | PMID = 17414095 }}</ref>  have suggested that ''[[cystic nephroma]]'' and ''mixed epithelial and stromal tumour (MEST)'' are one tumour; the proposed lumping term ''[[renal epithelial and stromal tumour]]'', abbreviated ''REST''.