• Medicina · Oct 2021

    Case Reports

    Urothelial Cell Carcinoma of the Renal Pelvis Misdiagnosed as Ureteropelvic Junction Obstruction: A Case Report.

    • Jeong-Hyouk Choi, Tae-Soo Choi, Dong-Gi Lee, and Gyeong-Eun Min.
    • Department of Urology, College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 05278, Korea.
    • Medicina (Kaunas). 2021 Oct 25; 57 (11).

    AbstractUrothelial tumors are typically a disease affecting elderly individuals and are rare in young patients. Moreover, upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma is extremely rare in the young age group. In this study, we present a case of urothelial cell carcinoma of the renal pelvis and ureter in a young man without risk factors of urothelial carcinoma, which was misdiagnosed as ureteropelvic junction obstruction and treated with a laparoscopic pyeloplasty.

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