Introduction:

nephrotic syndrome is due to diverse etiologies; only a relatively small number of diseases are responsible for the majority of patients seen.

Patient information:

a 14-year-old African female patient is presented with previous health history until detecting a left cervical enlargement, with slow growth of two years of evolution. Generalized edema was noted until the diagnosis of nephrotic syndrome was confirmed, which was associated with a carotid body tumor (paraganglioma) and acute renal dysfunction. The patient required hemodialysis treatment according to needs without functional recovery and permanent substitution therapies.

Conclusions:

It is remarkable the infrequency of this tumor process and its association with a renal lesion that evolved to chronicity in a pediatric patient.

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