[A case report of suspected Stauffer syndrome presenting with fever, extensive inflammation, and abnormal liver function tests].
A man was referred to our hospital because of malaise and abnormal liver function tests. He had had a kidney removed for early renal cell carcinoma. We performed ultrasonography, CT scan, and liver biopsy, all of which were normal. However, FDG-PET revealed abnormal, diffuse uptake in the bone. A bone biopsy showed abnormal clear cells resembling renal cell carcinoma. Because there was no other primary origin, this histopathological finding led to the diagnosis of bone metastasis of renal cell carcinoma, and the abnormal liver function test was thus inferred to be due to Stauffer syndrome.
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tenri Hospital.
Rieko
R
Takai
Shinji
S
Miyajima
Akina
A
Omura
Toshiyuki
T
Morisawa
Akihiro
A
Okano
Hajime
H
Kida
Satoshi
S
Okinaga
Fusako
F
Kusumi
Masaya
M
Ohana
Kumi
K
Fujita
D001706:Biopsy; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005334:Fever / Q000209:etiology; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D008111:Liver Function Tests; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography
D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18