Spontaneous caval tumor thrombus necrosis and regression of pulmonary lesions in renal cell cancer.
Idiopathic regression of metastases is one of the features of the unpredictable behaviour of renal cell carcinoma. We report a patient with pulmonary metastases and a tumor thrombus in the inferior vena cava with spontaneous regression of the lung lesions and necrosis of the thrombus before any therapy was instituted.
Bos
S D
SD
Department of Urology, University Hospital Groningen, The Netherlands.
Mensink
H J
HJ
D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000473:pathology; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009336:Necrosis; D009365:Neoplasm Regression, Spontaneous / Q000473:pathology*; D009360:Neoplastic Cells, Circulating; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000473:pathology*