Clinical features of sarcomatoid renal cell carcinoma causing bilateral urinary tract obstruction

Int J Artif Organs. 2008 Oct;31(10):910-2. doi: 10.1177/039139880803101008.

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Carcinoma, Renal Cell / diagnostic imaging*
  • Carcinoma, Renal Cell / surgery
  • Cholecystectomy
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Functional Laterality
  • Humans
  • Kidney Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Kidney Neoplasms / surgery
  • Middle Aged
  • Nephrectomy
  • Renal Dialysis
  • Sarcoma / diagnostic imaging*
  • Sarcoma / surgery
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed