Nightmare Cases archive for 2022

Scan showing renal transplant at the level of the iliac crest.

Demanding cases or nightmares in uro-oncology? Sep/Oct 2022

5 September 2022 | | URO - Urologic Oncology

Treatment of prostate cancer in renal transplant recipients is challenging due to a lack of knowledge of the natural history of cancer in these patients, the anatomical position of the graft in the iliac fossa and its proximity to the...

Ultrascan in late October 2021.

Demanding cases or nightmares in uro-oncology? May/Jun 2022

3 May 2022 | | URO - Urologic Oncology

Delayed diagnosis of testicular cancer Testicular cancer is considered rare in the general population but is the most common cancer affecting males between 24 and 49 years. The diagnosis of testicular cancer depends on physical examination, ultrasound findings and tumour...

Histology slide from initial renal mass biopsy showing tumour deposits in the perinephric fat.

Demanding cases or nightmares in uro-oncology? Jan/Feb 2022

5 January 2022 | | URO - Urologic Oncology

When less is more: percutaneous biopsy and tumour seeding in papillary renal cell carcinoma Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) accounted for 2.2% of new cancer diagnoses worldwide in 2018 with over 400,000 new cases and 175,098 deaths [1]. The majority of...