Chicken pox recurrence revealing a renal adenocarcinoma in an adult

A new episode of chicken pox in adults who had a well documented infection previously is usually observed in immunocompromised individuals, The princi pal immunodeficiency factors are hematology diseases, acquired immunodefici ency disease and old age. We report here the case of a young woman who afte r a contaminating contact presented a recurrence of typical chicken pox. Mo rphological investigations evidenced a right kidney tumor which pathology r evealed to be a renal adenocarcinoma, We discuss this pathological associat ion and review cases reported in the literature.