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Renal medullary carcinoma masquerading as renal infection: a case report
BACKGROUND: Renal medullary carcinoma is a rare and aggressive tumor and often seen in young adults with sickle cell hemoglobinopathies. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of renal medullary carcinoma in a 29-year old male patient with an occupying renal lesion who presented with fever, flank pain...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7059715/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32138685 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12882-020-01730-y |
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author | Huang, Zhong-Ming Wang, Hai Ji, Zhi-Gang |
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description | BACKGROUND: Renal medullary carcinoma is a rare and aggressive tumor and often seen in young adults with sickle cell hemoglobinopathies. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of renal medullary carcinoma in a 29-year old male patient with an occupying renal lesion who presented with fever, flank pain and hematuria. The patient received intensive antibiotics treatment, but no improvement was seen. The symptoms disappeared after laparoscopic radical left nephrectomy. Postoperative pathological study showed that the mass was renal medullary carcinoma. CONCLUSIONS: Our case suggests that renal medullary carcinoma should be considered in differential diagnoses of patients with occupying renal lesions who have fever of unknown origin. |
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spelling | pubmed-70597152020-03-12 Renal medullary carcinoma masquerading as renal infection: a case report Huang, Zhong-Ming Wang, Hai Ji, Zhi-Gang BMC Nephrol Case Report BACKGROUND: Renal medullary carcinoma is a rare and aggressive tumor and often seen in young adults with sickle cell hemoglobinopathies. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of renal medullary carcinoma in a 29-year old male patient with an occupying renal lesion who presented with fever, flank pain and hematuria. The patient received intensive antibiotics treatment, but no improvement was seen. The symptoms disappeared after laparoscopic radical left nephrectomy. Postoperative pathological study showed that the mass was renal medullary carcinoma. CONCLUSIONS: Our case suggests that renal medullary carcinoma should be considered in differential diagnoses of patients with occupying renal lesions who have fever of unknown origin. BioMed Central 2020-03-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7059715/ /pubmed/32138685 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12882-020-01730-y Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Huang, Zhong-Ming Wang, Hai Ji, Zhi-Gang Renal medullary carcinoma masquerading as renal infection: a case report |
title | Renal medullary carcinoma masquerading as renal infection: a case report |
title_full | Renal medullary carcinoma masquerading as renal infection: a case report |
title_fullStr | Renal medullary carcinoma masquerading as renal infection: a case report |
title_full_unstemmed | Renal medullary carcinoma masquerading as renal infection: a case report |
title_short | Renal medullary carcinoma masquerading as renal infection: a case report |
title_sort | renal medullary carcinoma masquerading as renal infection: a case report |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7059715/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32138685 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12882-020-01730-y |
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