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Mohamed Amine Lakmichi, Redouane Jarir, Jamal Kabour, Zakaria Dahami, Mohamed Said Moudouni, Ismail Sarf. Sciatica leading to the discovery of a renal cell carcinoma. The Pan African Medical Journal. 2011;9:18 Key words: Renal carcinoma, kidney cancer, metastatic renal cell cancer, cytoreductive nephrectomy Permanent link: http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/9/18/full Received: 25/04/2011 - Accepted: 16/05/2011 - Published: 10/06/2011 © Mohamed Amine Lakmichi et al. The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Sciatica leading to the discovery of a renal cell carcinoma
Mohamed Amine Lakmichi1,&, Redouane Jarir1, Jamal Kabour1, Zakaria Dahami1, Mohamed Said Moudouni1, Ismail Sarf1
1Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University Hospital Center Mohammed the VIth, Cadi Ayyad University of Marrakesh, Morocco
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Mohamed Amine Lakmichi, Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University Hospital Center Mohammed the VIth, Cadi Ayyad University of Marrakesh, Marrakesh, Morocco
Metastatic renal cell cancer is not exceptional in kidney cancer (30% of patients with kidneyl cancer). Its prognosis is particularly severe. However, sciatic neuralgia (sciatica) remains an exceptional revealing clinical sign of this disease. The authors report the case of a patient admitted with right sciatica as chief complain, leading to the discovery of a renal cell carcinoma. Although uncommon, renal cell carcinoma spine metastasis should be included in the differential diagnosis of back pain and sciatica.
