tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: " Massive hematuria due to a congenital renal arteriovenous malformation mimicking a renal pelvis tumor: a case report"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Massive hematuria due to a congenital renal arteriovenous malformation mimicking a renal pelvis tumor: a case report | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Case report Open Access Massive hematuria due to a congenital renal arteriovenous malformation mimicking a renal pelvis tumor a case report P Sountoulides 1 2 I Zachos1 K Paschalidis2 I Asouhidou3 A Fotiadou4 A Bantis5 M Palasopoulou3 and T Podimatas1 Address 1Urology Department Agios Andreas Hospital of Patras Greece 2Urology Department General Hospital of Veria 59100 Greece 3Anesthesiology Department Papageorgiou Hospital Thessaloniki Greece 4Department of Interventional Radiology Papageorgiou Hospital Thessaloniki Greece and 5Medical School University of Alexandroupolis Dragana 68100 Alexandroupolis Greece Email P Sountoulides - sountp@ I Zachos - zachosg@ K Paschalidis - kpasxal@ I Asouhidou - petro-s@ A Fotiadou - natfot@ A Bantis - bantis68@ M Palasopoulou - johnbzac@ T Podimatas - ekouvar@ Corresponding author Published 5 May 2008 Received 10 November 2007 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2008 2 144 doi 1752-1947-2-144 Accepted 5 May 2008 This article is available from http content 2 1 144 2008 Sountoulides et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction Congenital renal arteriovenous malformations AVMs are very rare benign lesions. They are more common in women and rarely manifest in elderly people. In some cases they present with massive hematuria. Contemporary treatment consists of transcatheter selective arterial embolization which leads to resolution of the hematuria whilst preserving renal parenchyma. Case presentation A 72-year-old man who was heavy smoker presented with massive hematuria and flank pain. CT scan revealed a filling .