Renovascular hypertension caused by lymph node metastasis in a patient with uterine cervical cancer: case report

Angiology. 1993 May;44(5):402-5. doi: 10.1177/000331979304400510.

Abstract

Renovascular hypertension was found in a fifty-four-year-old woman who had been diagnosed as having uterine cervical cancer, stage Ib, six months before admission. Renal arteriography showed a stenosis of the right renal artery with a significant increase in renal vein renin level from the ipsilateral kidney. Abdominal computed tomographic scanning showed enlarged lymph nodes in the para-aortic region at the level of the right renal artery, which suggested metastasis of the carcinoma. Metastatic lymph node swellings probably caused compression of the right renal artery.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Female
  • Humans
  • Hypertension, Renovascular / diagnostic imaging
  • Hypertension, Renovascular / etiology*
  • Lymph Nodes / pathology*
  • Lymphatic Metastasis*
  • Middle Aged
  • Renal Artery Obstruction / etiology
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / pathology*