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Sudden death due to pulmonary embolism as presenting symptom of renal tumors

2007; Wiley; Volume: 50; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/pbc.21429

1545-5017

Marry M. van den Heuvel‐Eibrink, B. Lankhorst, R. Maarten Egeler, Linda Corel, Wouter J.W. Kollen,

Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies

In 4-6% of patients with renal tumors in children intravascular infiltration is found. Tumor emboli are even rarer, and sudden death as presenting symptom has only been described at presentation in Wilms tumor (WT) in six cases so far. This report describes two recent cases of sudden death in patients with renal tumors in which a fatal pulmonary embolus was the first presentation.