Renovascular hypertension caused by lymph node metastasis in a patient with uterine cervical cancer: case report.
Renovascular hypertension was found in a fifty-four-year-old woman who had been diagnosed as having uterine cervical cancer, stage Ib, six months before admission. Renal arteriography showed a stenosis of the right renal artery with a significant increase in renal vein renin level from the ipsilateral kidney. Abdominal computed tomographic scanning showed enlarged lymph nodes in the para-aortic region at the level of the right renal artery, which suggested metastasis of the carcinoma. Metastatic lymph node swellings probably caused compression of the right renal artery.
Fujimoto
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Second Department of Internal Medicine, Kyushu University, Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan.
Ohya
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Abe
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Kobayashi
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Hasuo
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Fujishima
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M
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006978:Hypertension, Renovascular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000473:pathology*; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008875:Middle Aged; D012078:Renal Artery Obstruction / Q000209:etiology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*