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November 2021 Imaging Case of the Month: Let’s Not Dance the Twist

Authors :
Prasad M. Panse
Michael B. Gotway, MD
Source :
Southwest Journal of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Vol 23, Iss 5, Pp 115-125 (2021)
Publication Year :
2021
Publisher :
Arizona Thoracic Society, 2021.

Abstract

No abstract available. Article truncated after the first 150 words. History of Present Illness: An 82-year-old man presented to his physician for general health maintenance as well as a complaint of persistently poor quality sleep and poor appetite with weight loss. The patient had undergone robotic-assisted radical left nephroureterectomy and cystectomy with pelvic lymph node dissection and urinary diversion for left clear cell renal cell carcinoma (staged T2a, grade 2) and transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder (carcinoma in situ at surgery), approximately 9 months earlier. The patient’s bladder malignancy was initially treated with transurethral resection, with histopathology at that procedure showing high-grade papillary urothelial malignancy with lamina propria invasion, but no muscular invasion; this procedure was followed by formal complete resection approximately 3 months later. The patient’s post-operative course was complicated by significant bleeding which required transfusion of 3 units of blood. He had undergone inferior vena caval filter placement prior to surgery when preoperative testing revealed lower extremity …

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
21606773
Volume :
23
Issue :
5
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Southwest Journal of Pulmonary and Critical Care
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.7a1e7bef42de425bb10a783fff74fe0c
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.13175/swjpcc053-21