A unique presentation of renal cell carcinoma: both upper and lower gastrointestinal bleeding

Bekci, Tumay; Aydin, Ramazan; Aslan, Kerim

doi:10.1016/j.ajem.2013.06.022

A unique presentation of renal cell carcinoma: both upper and lower gastrointestinal bleeding

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Bekci T., Aydin R., Aslan K.

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE, cilt.31, sa.11, 2013 (SCI-Expanded)

Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
Cilt numarası: 31 Sayı: 11
Basım Tarihi: 2013
Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.ajem.2013.06.022
Dergi Adı: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) constitutes 3% of all adult malignancies and may present with various symptoms due to local growth, metastasis, and paraneoplastic syndrome. Gastrointestinal hemorrhage because of RCC is a very rare event and more commonly seen as a recurrence of RCC many years after nephrectomy. Both upper and lower gastrointestinal bleeding due to direct invasion of RCC has not been reported yet in the literature. Herein, we report a case of 78-year-old man with both massive upper and lower gastrointestinal bleeding as a presenting symptom of RCC.