Haematuria As a Presentation of Metastatic Oesophageal Carcinoma

Overview

Journal Int Semin Surg Oncol

Publisher Biomed Central

Specialty Oncology

Date 2005 Feb 22

PMID 15720721

Citations 2

Authors

R Hargunani

S Al-Dujaily

Aks Abdulla

Dr Osborne

Affiliations

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Abstract

Haematuria is a classical symptom of urological disease often signifying a primary bladder cancer. Rarely, however, the presence of blood in the urine can be due to secondary spread of tumours into the bladder from distant sites. Notably this has been reported to occur in breast cancer, malignant melanoma and gastric cancers. Haematuria due to spread from a primary oesophageal cancer to the bladder has never been reported. We present a case of haematuria confirmed histologically to be due to metastases from a primary oesophageal tumour. Oesophageal cancer is capable of spread to all three neighbouring compartments (abdomen, chest and neck) and therefore has the potential to spread to unusual sites. Clinicians should always carefully regard haematuria in a patient previously treated for cancer and retain a high index of suspicion for distant metastases as being the cause.

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