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- Title
Renal Medullary Carcinoma.
- Authors
Leitão, Victor Augusto; Da Silva Jr., Walter; Ferreira, Ubirajara; Denardi, Fernandes; Billis, Athanase; Netto Jr., Nelson Rodrigues
- Abstract
Young patients with sickle cell trait or disease present a higher risk for renal medullary carcinoma, an aggressive renal tumor, with dismal prognosis, with a median survival of 4 months from the time of diagnosis. We report a 26-year-old patient with a 2-month history of bone pain at the right iliac crest, loss of weight, recurrent macroscopic hematuria and abdominal mass. Imaging studies demonstrated a 10-cm mass in the right kidney. Pathological evaluation revealed a medullary carcinoma and the patient died after 4 months, despite adjuvant treatment. Whenever a patient with sickle cell trait or disease presents with hematuria and/or flank pain, the possibility of a renal medullary carcinoma should always be kept in mind, with thorough investigation and expeditious treatment. Copyright © 2006 S. Karger AG, Basel
- Subjects
SICKLE cell anemia; CANCER; TUMORS; CANCER patients; PATHOLOGY
- Publication
Urologia Internationalis, 2006, Vol 77, Issue 2, p184
- ISSN
0042-1138
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1159/000093918