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The authors present the results of the examination of 61 patients with genitourinary space-occupying lesions, using 18F- fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (PET) in whole body mode. In all cases the diagnosis was verified morphologically. The results demonstrated high diagnostic accuracy of PET, including possibility to determine the extent of oncourological cancer.
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October 1994
Klinik für Allgemein- und Abdominalchirurgie, Zentralklinikum Augsburg.
Metastatic renal cell carcinoma is a major cause of cancer death. Most metastases occur within the first three months after diagnosis of the primary. Solitary metastases at unusual sites are not untypical, and therefore require particular attention.
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May 1994
Abteilung für Rheumatologie, Medizinische Universität Lübeck.
An 85-year-old woman had a right-sided renal cell carcinoma removed 20 years ago. At haemoglobin concentration. Two years ago she had a syncope, at which time the haemoglobin concentration was 16.
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March 1994
USL n. 21, Ospedale Oncologico, Cagliari.
Metastases to the thyroid gland from renal carcinoma are observed in 10% of the uncommon metastatic thyroid tumours. They are the first sign of renal carcinoma in 25% of cases or appear after primary treatment of renal neoplasia, up to 27 years later. Metastases are more frequent in pathological glands, perhaps because intraparenchymal blood flow is slowed and tissue oxygen partial pressure is reduced.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMalignant tumors of renal parenchyma remain a problem for a clinician in view of the lacking distinctive algorithm and treatment policy based principally on the diagnosis terms. Optimal treatment, surgical, is represented by two kinds of operations: preserving and radical. Out of 292 patients admitted to the clinic from 1974 to 1990, 243 (83%) underwent surgery which was conservative in 37 (15.
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