Carcinosarcoma of the Renal Pelvis and Urinary Bladder: A Case Report

Carcinosarcomas are rare biphasic malignant neoplasms with an epithelial and a spindle cell component. We present a 62-year-old man with a history of noticeably abdominal distension, proved by surgery to be caused by carcinosarcoma of the renal pelvis and urinary bladder, occupying the entire left a...

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Autores principales: Yilmaz, Erkan, Birlik, Bilge, Arican, Zumre, Guney, Soner
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Radiological Society 2003
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2698105/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14726644
http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2003.4.4.255
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author Yilmaz, Erkan
Birlik, Bilge
Arican, Zumre
Guney, Soner
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description Carcinosarcomas are rare biphasic malignant neoplasms with an epithelial and a spindle cell component. We present a 62-year-old man with a history of noticeably abdominal distension, proved by surgery to be caused by carcinosarcoma of the renal pelvis and urinary bladder, occupying the entire left abdominal flank. We also illustrate the appearance of this rare entity on sonography and computed tomography.
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spelling pubmed-26981052009-06-23 Carcinosarcoma of the Renal Pelvis and Urinary Bladder: A Case Report Yilmaz, Erkan Birlik, Bilge Arican, Zumre Guney, Soner Korean J Radiol Case Report Carcinosarcomas are rare biphasic malignant neoplasms with an epithelial and a spindle cell component. We present a 62-year-old man with a history of noticeably abdominal distension, proved by surgery to be caused by carcinosarcoma of the renal pelvis and urinary bladder, occupying the entire left abdominal flank. We also illustrate the appearance of this rare entity on sonography and computed tomography. The Korean Radiological Society 2003 2003-12-31 /pmc/articles/PMC2698105/ /pubmed/14726644 http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2003.4.4.255 Text en Copyright © 2003 The Korean Radiological Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Yilmaz, Erkan
Birlik, Bilge
Arican, Zumre
Guney, Soner
Carcinosarcoma of the Renal Pelvis and Urinary Bladder: A Case Report
title Carcinosarcoma of the Renal Pelvis and Urinary Bladder: A Case Report
title_full Carcinosarcoma of the Renal Pelvis and Urinary Bladder: A Case Report
title_fullStr Carcinosarcoma of the Renal Pelvis and Urinary Bladder: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Carcinosarcoma of the Renal Pelvis and Urinary Bladder: A Case Report
title_short Carcinosarcoma of the Renal Pelvis and Urinary Bladder: A Case Report
title_sort carcinosarcoma of the renal pelvis and urinary bladder: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2698105/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14726644
http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2003.4.4.255
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