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- Title
Nephrotic syndrome and renal failure as an unusual presentation of solid tumour.
- Authors
Bonkain, Florence; Ena, Graziella; Depierreux, Michel; Debelle, Frédéric D.; Nortier, Joëlle L.
- Abstract
Glomerular diseases may occur as primary manifestation of cancer, especially in patients older than 60 years. Among glomerulopathies, membranous nephropathy is preferentially associated with respiratory and gastrointestinal tract adenocarcinomas, whereas minimal change disease is most often seen in haematological malignancies. Though breast cancer is one of the most frequent malignancies in women, paraneoplastic glomerular disease is rarely observed. We describe the case of a 79-year-old female patient who presented with nephrotic syndrome and renal failure. Breast cancer was found. Pathological studies of kidney and breast biopsy revealed a minimal change disease and an infiltrating ductal carcinoma, respectively.
- Subjects
KIDNEY diseases; ACUTE kidney failure; NEPHROTIC syndrome; BREAST cancer; CANCER in women; CANCER patients
- Publication
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 2010, Vol 3, Issue 1, p51
- ISSN
0931-0509
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/ndtplus/sfp119