Spontaneous caval tumor thrombus necrosis and regression of pulmonary lesions in renal cell cancer

Scand J Urol Nephrol. 1996 Dec;30(6):489-92. doi: 10.3109/00365599609182329.

Abstract

Idiopathic regression of metastases is one of the features of the unpredictable behaviour of renal cell carcinoma. We report a patient with pulmonary metastases and a tumor thrombus in the inferior vena cava with spontaneous regression of the lung lesions and necrosis of the thrombus before any therapy was instituted.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Carcinoma, Renal Cell / pathology
  • Carcinoma, Renal Cell / secondary*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Kidney / pathology
  • Kidney Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Lung / pathology
  • Lung Neoplasms / pathology
  • Lung Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Middle Aged
  • Necrosis
  • Neoplasm Regression, Spontaneous / pathology*
  • Neoplastic Cells, Circulating*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Vena Cava, Inferior / pathology*