Hematuria following kidney tumorectomy: can it hide an arteriovenous fistula?

Urologia. 2015 Jul-Sep;82(3):191-2. doi: 10.5301/uro.5000089. Epub 2014 Oct 10.

Abstract

We present the case and radiologic images of a 64-year-old man who presented with gross hematuria and fever 2 months after undergoing retroperitoneal partial nephrectomy for a 4.7 × 4.6 cm papillary renal cell carcinoma. Angio-TC demonstrated an aneurysmatic dilatation of the anterior inferior segmental artery of the right kidney with an arteriovenous fistula; the patient was treated with angiography and selective cannulation by deploying 4 platinum coils. At follow-up, we used contrast-enhanced ultrasound to monitor coil embolization of the renal artery pseudoaneurysm.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Arteriovenous Fistula / complications*
  • Carcinoma, Renal Cell / surgery*
  • Hematuria / etiology*
  • Humans
  • Kidney Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Nephrectomy*
  • Postoperative Complications / etiology*
  • Renal Artery*