Renal cell carcinoma presenting with malignant ascites

It is rare for renal cell carcinoma to involve the peritoneum and cause malignant ascites. Furthermore, it is uncommon for malignant ascites to be a presenting feature of this cancer. An unusual case of renal cell carcinoma presenting with malignant ascites is reported, and its response to sunitinib...

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Autores principales: Jennison, Erica, Wathuge, Gayathri W, Gorard, David A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2015
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4429040/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25973217
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2054270415585087
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description It is rare for renal cell carcinoma to involve the peritoneum and cause malignant ascites. Furthermore, it is uncommon for malignant ascites to be a presenting feature of this cancer. An unusual case of renal cell carcinoma presenting with malignant ascites is reported, and its response to sunitinib described.
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spelling pubmed-44290402015-05-13 Renal cell carcinoma presenting with malignant ascites Jennison, Erica Wathuge, Gayathri W Gorard, David A JRSM Open Case Reports It is rare for renal cell carcinoma to involve the peritoneum and cause malignant ascites. Furthermore, it is uncommon for malignant ascites to be a presenting feature of this cancer. An unusual case of renal cell carcinoma presenting with malignant ascites is reported, and its response to sunitinib described. SAGE Publications 2015-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4429040/ /pubmed/25973217 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2054270415585087 Text en © The Author(s) 2015 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page(http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/openaccess.htm).
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Renal cell carcinoma presenting with malignant ascites
title Renal cell carcinoma presenting with malignant ascites
title_full Renal cell carcinoma presenting with malignant ascites
title_fullStr Renal cell carcinoma presenting with malignant ascites
title_full_unstemmed Renal cell carcinoma presenting with malignant ascites
title_short Renal cell carcinoma presenting with malignant ascites
title_sort renal cell carcinoma presenting with malignant ascites
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4429040/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25973217
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2054270415585087
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