A unique presentation of renal cell carcinoma: both upper and lower gastrointestinal bleeding.
Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) constitutes 3% of all adult malignancies and may present with various symptoms due to local growth, metastasis, and paraneoplastic syndrome. Gastrointestinal hemorrhage because of RCC is a very rare event and more commonly seen as a recurrence of RCC many years after nephrectomy. Both upper and lower gastrointestinal bleeding due to direct invasion of RCC has not been reported yet in the literature. Herein, we report a case of 78-year-old man with both massive upper and lower gastrointestinal bleeding as a presenting symptom of RCC.
Department of Radiology, University of Ondokuz Mayis, Faculty of Medicine, Samsun, Turkey. Electronic address: tmybkc@gmail.com.
Tumay
T
Bekci
Ramazan
R
Aydin
Kerim
K
Aslan
D000368:Aged; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed