Renal vein thrombosis misdiagnosed as a renal cell carcinoma with a tumor thrombus in the inferior vena cava.
A 69-year-old man was diagnosed with a right renal carcinoma with a tumor thrombus in the inferior vena cava, and underwent a radical nephrectomy. The entire specimen was examined by step-wise sectioning and found to be a thrombus with extensive hemosiderin deposits and recanalization which contained no malignant cells.
Takayama
H
H
Department of Urology, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, Japan.
Kinouchi
T
T
Meguro
N
N
Maeda
O
O
Saiki
S
S
Kuroda
M
M
Usami
M
M
Kotake
T
T
D000368:Aged; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D012082:Renal Veins; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior