I have tried asking about it, but everyone seems to sidestep my questions. These growths are most often found in the kidney. With the advent of liver scans, they are recognized more often than they had been in past times. Some angiomyolipomas spread to lymph nodes, but most are noncancerous growths. As an aside, angiomyolipomas are often part of a syndrome called tuberous sclerosis.
Tubers are small growths that arise from the brain.
The spectrum of that illness ranges from no symptoms to mental retardation. You do not have tuberous sclerosis. I mention it only because of its sometimes association with angiomyolipomas. All rights reserved.