[Epidermoid cancer of the kidney pelvis].
Squamous cell carcinoma of the renal pelvis is a rare tumour, mainly occurring in elderly patients with neglected and secondarily infected pyelocaliceal stones. It has a poor prognosis. The authors report the case of a 74-year old man with a destroyed and painful kidney containing a staghorn calculus for 30 years. The preoperative diagnosis was pyonephrosis, but nephrectomy, justified by the symptoms, showed that the kidney was invaded by a squamous cell carcinoma of the renal pelvis invading the psoas. The patient died 1 month after the operation. Treatment is essentially preventive by removal of staghorn calculi and management of chronic urinary tract infections.
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Service d'Urologie, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, 47-83, Boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75651 Paris. emmanuel.van-glabeke@chi-andre-gregoire.fr
Chartier-Kastler
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Delcourt
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Cluzel
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Bruel
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Richard
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D000368:Aged; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007669:Kidney Calculi / Q000175:diagnosis*; D007682:Kidney Pelvis; D008297:Male
Cancer épidermoïde du bassinet.