Open AccessPercutaneous Management of Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma in a Transplant Kidney
Author(s) -
Tolulope Bakare,
Omer Raheem,
Rodney Davis,
Samy Heshmat,
Mohamed H. Kamel
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
current urology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.476
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1661-7657
pISSN - 1661-7649
DOI - 10.1159/000442841
Subject(s) - medicine , urology , urothelial carcinoma , percutaneous , kidney , urothelial cancer , kidney transplant , surgery , kidney transplantation , cancer , bladder cancer
Upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) accounts for approximately 5% of all urothelial cancers. The gold standard for managing UTUC is radical nephroureterectomy. Management options may vary depending on the overall clinical picture of the patient and it becomes particularly complex when UTUC develops in a transplanted kidney. We herein present a case report of a 56-year-old male with UTUC in a transplant kidney managed percutaneously with successful salvage of the transplant kidney.