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CT of unusual renal masses invading the pelvicaliceal system: Potential mimics of upper tract transitional cell carcinoma

  • Mary T. Kitazono
  • , Fergus V. Coakley
  • , David M. Naeger
  • , Benjamin M. Yeh
  • , Bonnie N. Joe
  • , Aliya Qayyum

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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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)77-80
Number of pages4
JournalClinical Imaging
Volume35
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2011
Externally publishedYes

Funding

FundersFunder number
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and BioengineeringT32EB001631

    Keywords

    • CT
    • Pelvicaliceal system
    • Renal neoplasm
    • Transitional cell carcinoma

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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