Hematuria as the presenting symptom of a metastatic thyroid cancer.
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.
Pepe
Pietro
P
Urology, Unit of Cannizzaro Hospital, Catania, Italy. piepepe@hotmail.com
Fraggetta
Filippo
F
Galia
Antonio
A
Grasso
Giuseppe
G
Aragona
Francesco
F
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*