A case of retroperitoneal fibrosis responding to steroid therapy

A 69-year-old man presented at the hospital with complaints of prolonged stomach pain extending from the week prior. Enhanced computed tomography (CT) revealed a low density area in the retroperitoneal space. A radiologist diagnosed the patient with retroperitoneal fibrosis. One week later, an enhan...

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Autores principales: Watanabe, Ryuta, Ozawa, Akira, Iseda, Tokuhiro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Urologia 2017
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Challenging Clinical Cases
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5734084/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28379669
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1677-5538.IBJU.2016.0520
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author Watanabe, Ryuta
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description A 69-year-old man presented at the hospital with complaints of prolonged stomach pain extending from the week prior. Enhanced computed tomography (CT) revealed a low density area in the retroperitoneal space. A radiologist diagnosed the patient with retroperitoneal fibrosis. One week later, an enhanced CT revealed an exponential increase of the low density area and slight right hydronephrosis. Upon admission, prednisolone administration was initiated at a dose of 40mg/day. The size of the retroperitoneal soft tissue mass decreased gradually. Although the dose of prednisolone was tapered to 5mg, the patient is doing well without any sign of recurrence.
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spelling pubmed-57340842017-12-19 A case of retroperitoneal fibrosis responding to steroid therapy Watanabe, Ryuta Ozawa, Akira Iseda, Tokuhiro Int Braz J Urol Challenging Clinical Cases A 69-year-old man presented at the hospital with complaints of prolonged stomach pain extending from the week prior. Enhanced computed tomography (CT) revealed a low density area in the retroperitoneal space. A radiologist diagnosed the patient with retroperitoneal fibrosis. One week later, an enhanced CT revealed an exponential increase of the low density area and slight right hydronephrosis. Upon admission, prednisolone administration was initiated at a dose of 40mg/day. The size of the retroperitoneal soft tissue mass decreased gradually. Although the dose of prednisolone was tapered to 5mg, the patient is doing well without any sign of recurrence. Sociedade Brasileira de Urologia 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5734084/ /pubmed/28379669 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1677-5538.IBJU.2016.0520 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5734084/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28379669
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1677-5538.IBJU.2016.0520
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