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

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 115-125
Author(s):  
Prasad Panse ◽  
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Michael Gotway

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 …

2004 ◽  
Vol 171 (4S) ◽  
pp. 257-257
Author(s):  
Sam B. Gray ◽  
Brian J. Duggan ◽  
Perry Maxwell ◽  
Ken Arthur ◽  
Neil Anderson ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1397-1401
Author(s):  
Sujitha Ketineni ◽  
Sreenath Kodali ◽  
Sasikanth Gorantla

Malignancies can trigger an autoimmune response against the nervous system and manifest as paraneoplastic neurological syndromes (PNS). Initial symptoms of PNS may develop up to 5 years prior to the diagnosis of the underlying malignancy. We report a rare case of PNS associated with transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder in a 70-year-old male with a 6-month history of rapidly progressive symmetric sensory neuropathy. Peripheral neuropathy serological workup was unremarkable. A paraneoplastic neuropathy panel revealed anti-Hu autoantibodies. Further evaluation with a whole-body PET scan could not identify the primary malignancy, but it showed hypermetabolic hilar lymph nodes. An endobronchial ultrasound biopsy of the hilar lymph nodes was negative for cancer. The patient developed painless hematuria 2.5 years after the onset of the sensory neuropathy. Cystoscopy with biopsy revealed non-muscle-invasive transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder. Progression of the sensory neuropathy stopped after tumor resection. This case highlights the importance of a diligent and systematic approach to diagnose PNS. A relentless search is often required to detect PNS-associated occult malignancies.


Urology ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 536-541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolaos D. Melissourgos ◽  
Nikolaos G. Kastrinakis ◽  
Andreas Skolarikos ◽  
Maria Pappa ◽  
Georgios Vassilakis ◽  
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