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Transitional cell carcinoma of ureter presenting acute ureteric colic and ruptured caliceal fornix with extravasation of urine Cover

Transitional cell carcinoma of ureter presenting acute ureteric colic and ruptured caliceal fornix with extravasation of urine

Open Access
|Apr 2018

Abstract

Background: Primary ureteral tumors are not common. The most common presentations of upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma are gross or microscopic hematuria. Objective: Report a rare case of acute ureteric colic with perirenal urinoma, secondary to primary ureteric carcinoma. Methods: Case report and review of literature. Result: Perirenal extravasation and ureteric obstruction by tumor was diagnosed by contrast-enhanced computed tomography. The patient was successfully treated with laparoscopic radical nephroureterectomy after the obstruction was relieved by ureteric stent. Adjuvant radiation was done at the renal fossa for local control. There was no evidence of disease recurrence at twelve month after surgery. Conclusion: The renal caliceal fornix rupture is usually associated with acute ureteric obstruction by stone. Rarely, it occurs by primary ureteric tumor.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/abm-2010-0122 | Journal eISSN: 1875-855X | Journal ISSN: 1905-7415
Language: English
Page range: 935 - 938
Published on: Apr 13, 2018
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 6 issues per year

© 2018 Phornthep Ruchdaphornkul, Kamol Panumatrassamee, published by Chulalongkorn University
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