Hematuria as the presenting symptom of a metastatic thyroid cancer

Urol Int. 2006;76(1):89-90. doi: 10.1159/000089743.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Acute Disease
  • Aged
  • Hematuria / etiology*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Pelvic Neoplasms / complications*
  • Pelvic Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Thyroid Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Urinary Retention / etiology*