Collecting duct carcinoma of kidney: Masquerading as genitourinary tuberculosis - Lessons learnt

We present a case of Collecting duct of Bellini carcinoma (CDC) which was masquerading as Genitourinary Tuberculosis/chronic granulomatous disease in a 43 year old women, who presented with complaints of low grade fever, loss of appetite, left loin pain and dyspnoea with recent onset of haemoptysis....

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Autores principales: T, Mathisekaran, Raghavan, Deepak, Muthu, Ranjanee, Prabhakar, Vikram, Prakash, Sanjay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
Materias:
Oncology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6928284/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31890601
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2019.101100
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Sumario:We present a case of Collecting duct of Bellini carcinoma (CDC) which was masquerading as Genitourinary Tuberculosis/chronic granulomatous disease in a 43 year old women, who presented with complaints of low grade fever, loss of appetite, left loin pain and dyspnoea with recent onset of haemoptysis. After extensive evaluation, she was referred to urology where she underwent a laparoscopic assisted open left radical nephrectomy which was reported to be Collecting duct carcinoma.This case is being presented for the diagnostic dilemma it elicited throughout the evaluation.

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