title: Asymptomatic advanced pediatric papillary renal cell carcinoma presenting as a pulmonary embolus.
abstract: Renal cell carcinoma in the pediatric population is a rare disease. A limited number of cases of renal cell carcinoma exist worldwide in the pediatric population. Reported herein is a case of a 17-year-old female who presented to an outside hospital with gross hematuria and shortness of breath. She was found to have a pulmonary embolus on computed tomography scan. After further imaging, a large renal mass with renal vein and vena cava involvement was observed. Intraoperatively, the tumor demonstrated extensive invasion of the wall of the vena cava.
authors.affiliation: Division of Urology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, USA.
authors.forename: Rocco A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Morabito
authors.forename: Can
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Talug
authors.forename: Stanley
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zaslau
authors.forename: Stanley
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kandzari
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000556:secondary*; D018450:Disease Progression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D009360:Neoplastic Cells, Circulating; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000209:etiology*; D012082:Renal Veins; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior