Abstract
Two patients with renal cell carcinoma and one patient with metastasis to the kidney
from colorectal cancer are reported because all three cases manifested at computed
tomography (CT) as a renal mass invading the pelvicaliceal system and radiologically
simulating transitional cell carcinoma. Recognition that the CT finding of a renal
mass with invasion of the pelvicaliceal system is not always indicative of a transitional
cell carcinoma broadens the differential diagnosis in this setting and might potentially
alter the diagnostic and therapeutic approach.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: May 10, 2010
Accepted:
February 20,
2010
Received:
December 15,
2009
Footnotes
☆DMN was supported by NIBIB T32 training grant 1 T32 EB001631-01A1.
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