Malignant Uroepitheliai. Tumors Of The Upper Urinary Tract In Sixteen Patients With Analgesic Nephropathy*
| Autor: | I. Becaus, P. D'Haenens, E. Fonteyne, J. Mestdagh, L. Thienpont, W. Lornoy, V. Morelle, R Van Steenberge, A Rollier |
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| Rok vydání: | 1980 |
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Male Urologic Neoplasms medicine.medical_specialty Substance-Related Disorders Urology Kidney urologic and male genital diseases End stage renal disease Nephropathy Belgium Renal Dialysis Renal cell carcinoma medicine Humans Kidney surgery Neoplasm Metastasis Upper urinary tract Analgesics Ureteral Neoplasms business.industry Phenacetin General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Analgesic nephropathy Kidney Neoplasms Transitional cell carcinoma medicine.anatomical_structure Female Kidney Diseases Ureter business Renal pelvis |
| Zdroj: | Acta Clinica Belgica. 35:140-147 |
| ISSN: | 2295-3337 1784-3286 |
| Popis: | SummaryAccording to the combined report of the EDTA, end stage renal disease due to analgesicassociated nephropathy was present in more than 20 per cent of patients, starting treatment with regular hemodialysis during 1977 in Belgium. Analgesic-associated nephropathy is the most common nephropathy in our area. During the last six years, sixteen patients (5 per cent of patients with analgesic-associated nephropathy) presented a transitional cell carcinoma in the upper urinary tract: in 10 cases a renal pelvic tumor and in four eases a ureteral tumor. Two patients were found with both tumors. There are arguments for a carcinogenic role of phenacetin. The presence of a solitary ureteral tumor in 4 patients is noteworthy as this type of carcinoma is very rare. In one patient, who underwent a nephroureterectomy for a tumor of the renal pelvis, a renal cell carcinoma was detected three years later in the contralateral kidney. The cases of analgesic-associated nephropathy with bladder tumor were omitted because ... |
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