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Exsanguinating Hemorrhage from an Anterior Abdominal Wall Metastasis of an Asymptomatic Renal Cell Carcinoma

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Renal cell carcinoma is the most frequently encountered urological malignancy and accounts for 3% of all adult malignancies. The classically described triad of hematuria, palpable mass, and flank pain is rarely encountered, and most patients are diagnosed by screening done for other reasons. It is notorious for unusual sites of metastatic spread. We present a case of an asymptomatic renal cell carcinoma that presented as an anterior abdominal wall swelling and its neglect led to ulceration, and torrential and exsanguinating hemorrhage to which the patient succumbed.

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  1. Department of General Surgery, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, 576104, India

    Devesh Sanjeev Ballal & Gabriel Rodrigues

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DSB: literature search, clinical studies, experimental studies, data acquisition, data analysis, manuscript preparation and review, final draft and approval; GR: design, definition of intellectual content, manuscript preparation, histopathology, manuscript editing and review, final draft and approval.

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Ballal, D.S., Rodrigues, G. Exsanguinating Hemorrhage from an Anterior Abdominal Wall Metastasis of an Asymptomatic Renal Cell Carcinoma. Indian J Surg Oncol 10, 135–136 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13193-018-0844-5

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