A case report of retroaortic left renal vein with tumor thrombus of renal cell carcinoma
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Hideo Otsuki Kenji Kuroda Takeo Kosaka Keiichi Ito Masamichi Hayakawa Tomohiko Asano
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2011
Description
A 75-year-old woman was referred to our department for evaluation of a left renal tumor. Computed tomography and other imaging studies demonstrated a left renal mass and tumor extension into the left renal vein passing caudally behind the aorta. We clinically diagnosed the tumor as renal cell carcinoma (RCC) associated with a retroaortic left renal vein thrombus, and performed a radical nephrectomy. Pathological examination of the surgical specimen showed a grade 2, clear cell carcinoma with a renal vein thrombus and negative surgical margin. Retroaortic left renal vein is a rare anomaly with a prevalence of 1.8–2.4%. RCC associated with a retroaortic left renal vein thrombus is rarer still. To our knowledge, this is only the third case report to describe an RCC associated with a tumor thrombus in the retroaortic left renal vein
Clin Exp Nephrol (2011) 15:438–441, Received: 26 July 2010 / Accepted: 10 January 2011 / Published online: 16 February 2011 Japanese Society of Nephrology 2011
