QJM Advance Access originally published online on May 27, 2008
QJM 2008 101(8):663-665; doi:10.1093/qjmed/hcn065
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First case of a primary osteosarcoma of the ureter: diagnostic findings, course of disease and treatment
From the 1Department of Urology, 2Department of Anesthesiology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and 3Department of Urology, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg, Germany
Address correspondence to Dr med. H. Kemmer, MD, Department of Urology, Erasmus MC, s Gravendijkwal 230, 3015 CE Rotterdam, The Netherlands. email: h.kemmer@erasmusmc.nl
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In October 2005, a 61-year-old patient was admitted with symptomatic right sided hydronephrosis. She was treated for breast cancer in 2003 with radical mastectomy and chemotherapy and for cervical carcinoma in 1983, which was cured by a Wertheim-Meigs operation and radiotherapy.
An intravenous pyelogram was performed, which demonstrated occlusion of the right distal ureter (Figure 1). A subsequent ureteroscopy revealed a hard, round
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