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The Ewha Medical Journal
Ewha Womans University School of Medicine

Ewha Med J 2004; 27(2):83-86

pISSN: 1598-7450

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12771/emj.2004.27.2.83

Original Article

Renal Cell Carcinoma Associated with Paraneoplastic Symdrome Mimicking Pyelonephritis

Min Cheol Han, Jae Hun Kim, Sung Jae Park, Dong Won Byun, Duk Hee Kang*, Bong Suk Shim

Copyright ⓒ 2004. Ewha Womans University School of Medicine. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published Online: Sep 30, 2004

Abstract

Renal cell carcinoma can presents wide range of signs and symptoms, and commonly associated with paraneoplastic syndrome. Paraneoplastic manifestations are present in up to 20% of patients with renal cell carcinoma. There is convincing evidence that renal cell carcinoma tumor cells elaborate proteins that serve as mediators of endocrine (ex ; ectopic production of parathyroid hormone-related protein or erythropoietin) as well as nonendocrine paraneoplastic syndromes. A paraneoplastic syndrome may be the various clinical presentation of renal cell carcinoma in a significant number of patients, therefore mimicked other general disease. We report a case of renal cell carcinoma associated with paraneoplastic syndrome mimicking pyelonephritis.

Keywords: Renal cell carcinoma; Paraneoplastic syndrome; Pyelonephritis