title: Hematuria as the presenting symptom of a metastatic thyroid cancer.
abstract: A 67-year-old man is presented who was admitted to our hospital for the onset of hematuria and acute urinary retention and who was found to have a 10-cm solid mass in the right obturator fossa compressing the bladder wall. Histology revealed the presence of a distant metastases from thyroid cancer. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case of a thyroid cancer presenting with hematuria and acute urinary retention caused by distant metastases to intrapelvic soft tissue.
authors.affiliation: Urology, Unit of Cannizzaro Hospital, Catania, Italy. piepepe@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Pietro
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pepe
authors.forename: Filippo
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fraggetta
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Galia
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Grasso
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Aragona
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000368:Aged; D006417:Hematuria / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010386:Pelvic Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000556:secondary*; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D016055:Urinary Retention / Q000209:etiology*