Intestinal metastases from renal cell carcinoma: A rare cause of intestinal obstruction and bleeding

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 127-130

  Pavlakis, George M ^a   Sakorafas, George H ^a,b   Anagnostopoulos, G K ^a  

^a 251 Hellenic Armed Forces Hospital   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Gastrointestinal bleeding; Intestinal metastases; Renal cell carcinoma; Small bowel obstruction

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; AGED; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; ILEUM RESECTION; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE PERFORATION; INTESTINE RESECTION; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MELENA; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; NEPHRECTOMY; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SMALL INTESTINE CARCINOMA; VOMITING;

AGED; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; FATAL OUTCOME; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE;

EID: 1642282673     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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