title: Bilateral renal cell carcinoma with caval invasion in a woman with duplicated inferior vena cava.
abstract: Workup of a woman presenting with a palpable right flank mass, detected bilateral renal solid lesions, later proved to be renal cell carcinomas, and caval invasion in the presence of duplicated inferior vena cava. This association does not appear to have been previously described. The patient underwent right radical nephrectomy, cavotomy and auriculotomy with caval thrombus removal and delayed enucleation of left renal masses and left adrenalectomy. Eighteen months after surgery the patient is alive and without local and distant recurrence.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Urology, University of Padova, Italy.
authors.forename: E S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Pescatori
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dal Bianco
authors.forename: T P
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: Galetti
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Artibani
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ricciardi
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pagano
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness / Q000473:pathology; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology