[Diagnostic difficulties in kidney cancer filling up the retroperitoneal space].
An autopsy case of a huge, rapidly progressive Bellini duct carcinoma is presented. During a 6-month period the patient was hospitalized many times in different medical units but her illness has not been diagnosed until the final weeks. The author discusses the pitfalls of diagnosis from clinicopathological point of view.
Zalatnai
Attila
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Semmelweis Egyetem, Altalanos Orvostudomanyi, Kar, I Patológiai és Kisérleti Rákkutató Intézete, Budapest. zalatnai@korb1.sote.hu
D000368:Aged; D001344:Autopsy; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000556:secondary; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D007685:Kidney Tubules, Collecting / Q000473:pathology*; D012186:Retroperitoneal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000556:secondary