title: Clinical features of sarcomatoid renal cell carcinoma causing bilateral urinary tract obstruction.
abstract: We report on a 52-year-old female patient hospitalized because of uremia due to bilateral urinary tract obstruction caused by bilateral sarcomatoid renal cell carcinoma (SRCC). Abdominal computed tomography with contrast showed a large mass on the left side, infiltrating the left kidney, while the right kidney was described as enlarged. The latter was investigated with sonographic angiography using contrast and selective arteriography of the renal arteries, demonstrating a pseudonodular area at the inferior pole of the right kidney. The patient underwent bilateral nephrectomy and chronic hemodialysis treatment; unfortunately, after one month she died from cachexia. To the best of our knowledge this is the first case to be reported on bilateral SRCC causing bilateral urinary tract obstruction.
authors.affiliation: Renal Unit, St. Anna Hospital, Ferrara - Italy.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Stabellini
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Orlandi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sartori
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tombesi
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fabbian
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Baglio
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Galeotti
authors.forename: Luigi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Catizone
mesh_terms: D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D002763:Cholecystectomy; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D009392:Nephrectomy; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed