Metastatic Ureteral Involvement of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Metastases from a variety of malignant tumors can involve the ureters, but ureteral involvement by lung cancer is extremely rare and usually described at autopsy. We report a rare case of a 76-year-old man who presented with a three-month history of right flank dullness and was noted to have a nonho...
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| description | Metastases from a variety of malignant tumors can involve the ureters, but ureteral involvement by lung cancer is extremely rare and usually described at autopsy. We report a rare case of a 76-year-old man who presented with a three-month history of right flank dullness and was noted to have a nonhomogeneous retroperitoneal mass with hydronephrosis of the right kidney on computed tomography of the abdomen. Computed tomography of the thorax showed a nodule in the lower lobe, measuring 3×2 cm, in the right lung. After excluding the presence of other primary tumors and metastases, we reached a final diagnosis of solitary retroperitoneal metastasis of adenocarcinoma of the lung. Although rare, in patients of non-small cell lung cancer, presence of hydronephrosis should alert the physician to the possibility of metastasis. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-fbf4dbbf1be74a069331d519e3e075052025-02-03T01:25:36ZengWileyCase Reports in Medicine1687-96271687-96352011-01-01201110.1155/2011/394326394326Metastatic Ureteral Involvement of Non-Small Cell Lung CancerKoichi Kodama0Tetsuya Imao1Kazuto Komatsu2Department of Urology, Toyama City Hospital, 2-1 Imaizumihokubu-cho, Toyama 939-8511, JapanDepartment of Urology, Nagano Red Cross Hospital, 5-22-1 Wakasato, Nagano 830-8582, JapanDepartment of Urology, Fukui Red Cross Hospital, 2-4-1 Tsukimi, Fukui 918-8501, JapanMetastases from a variety of malignant tumors can involve the ureters, but ureteral involvement by lung cancer is extremely rare and usually described at autopsy. We report a rare case of a 76-year-old man who presented with a three-month history of right flank dullness and was noted to have a nonhomogeneous retroperitoneal mass with hydronephrosis of the right kidney on computed tomography of the abdomen. Computed tomography of the thorax showed a nodule in the lower lobe, measuring 3×2 cm, in the right lung. After excluding the presence of other primary tumors and metastases, we reached a final diagnosis of solitary retroperitoneal metastasis of adenocarcinoma of the lung. Although rare, in patients of non-small cell lung cancer, presence of hydronephrosis should alert the physician to the possibility of metastasis.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/394326 |
| spellingShingle | Koichi Kodama Tetsuya Imao Kazuto Komatsu Metastatic Ureteral Involvement of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Case Reports in Medicine |
| title | Metastatic Ureteral Involvement of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer |
| title_full | Metastatic Ureteral Involvement of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer |
| title_fullStr | Metastatic Ureteral Involvement of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer |
| title_full_unstemmed | Metastatic Ureteral Involvement of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer |
| title_short | Metastatic Ureteral Involvement of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer |
| title_sort | metastatic ureteral involvement of non small cell lung cancer |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/394326 |
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