Renal cell carcinoma in ectopic pelvic kidney: A rare case report with relevant surgical anatomy

Renal Ectopia is a rare developmental anomaly, leading to failure of mature kidney to reach its normal location within the renal fossa. Most ectopic kidneys are asymphtomatic and gets diagnosed as incidental finding on radiography or at surgery. The incidence of RCC in ectopic kidney are very uncomm...

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Autores principales: Krishna, R.K. Gopala, Sinha, Kaushik, Ahmad, Parvez, Mishra, Shiv Kinkar, Gauraw, Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
Materias:
Oncology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6711857/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31467855
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2019.100963
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Sumario:Renal Ectopia is a rare developmental anomaly, leading to failure of mature kidney to reach its normal location within the renal fossa. Most ectopic kidneys are asymphtomatic and gets diagnosed as incidental finding on radiography or at surgery. The incidence of RCC in ectopic kidney are very uncommon, presenting with atypical symptoms causes a diagnostic as well as therapeutic dilemma in front of urologists. We present a case of 65 years old gentleman, having complaints of hematuria having heterogeneously enhancing SOL in left pelvic ectopic kidney.

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