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Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Renal Pelvis: Atypical Presentation of a Rare Malignancy

Primary squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the renal pelvis is exceedingly rare and is associated with advanced stage at diagnosis and a poor prognosis. Diagnosis is often difficult due to vague presenting symptoms and nonspecific radiologic findings. The mainstay of treatment is nephrectomy, with cis...

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Autores principales: Attalla, Kyrollis, Haines, Kenneth, Labow, Daniel, Mehrazin, Reza
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5440740/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28567328
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2017.04.007
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author Attalla, Kyrollis
Haines, Kenneth
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Mehrazin, Reza
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description Primary squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the renal pelvis is exceedingly rare and is associated with advanced stage at diagnosis and a poor prognosis. Diagnosis is often difficult due to vague presenting symptoms and nonspecific radiologic findings. The mainstay of treatment is nephrectomy, with cisplatin based chemotherapy and palliative radiation reserved for metastatic disease. We report a SCC of the renal pelvis in a 72 year-old female who presented with abdominal pain. To date, this is the largest SCC originating from the renal pelvis reported in the literature, made even more exceptional by the lack of antecedent risk factors.
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spelling pubmed-54407402017-05-31 Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Renal Pelvis: Atypical Presentation of a Rare Malignancy Attalla, Kyrollis Haines, Kenneth Labow, Daniel Mehrazin, Reza Urol Case Rep Oncology Primary squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the renal pelvis is exceedingly rare and is associated with advanced stage at diagnosis and a poor prognosis. Diagnosis is often difficult due to vague presenting symptoms and nonspecific radiologic findings. The mainstay of treatment is nephrectomy, with cisplatin based chemotherapy and palliative radiation reserved for metastatic disease. We report a SCC of the renal pelvis in a 72 year-old female who presented with abdominal pain. To date, this is the largest SCC originating from the renal pelvis reported in the literature, made even more exceptional by the lack of antecedent risk factors. Elsevier 2017-05-19 /pmc/articles/PMC5440740/ /pubmed/28567328 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2017.04.007 Text en © 2017 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
spellingShingle Oncology
Attalla, Kyrollis
Haines, Kenneth
Labow, Daniel
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Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Renal Pelvis: Atypical Presentation of a Rare Malignancy
title Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Renal Pelvis: Atypical Presentation of a Rare Malignancy
title_full Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Renal Pelvis: Atypical Presentation of a Rare Malignancy
title_fullStr Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Renal Pelvis: Atypical Presentation of a Rare Malignancy
title_full_unstemmed Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Renal Pelvis: Atypical Presentation of a Rare Malignancy
title_short Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Renal Pelvis: Atypical Presentation of a Rare Malignancy
title_sort squamous cell carcinoma of the renal pelvis: atypical presentation of a rare malignancy
topic Oncology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5440740/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28567328
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2017.04.007
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