--- a +++ b/data/text/es-S0210-48062007000700016-1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +A 67-year-old man with a history of hypertension and hiatal hernia under medical treatment came to the urology department for monosymptomatic and self-limiting haematuria. +Physical examination revealed no findings of interest. +Blood tests showed that all parameters were within normal limits. +Intravenous urography showed a repletion defect in the right renal pelvis, which was later confirmed by abdominal computed tomography showing a mass in the pelvis amputating the middle calyx. +Cytology was negative. +Right nephroureterectomy was performed. Endoscopic ureteral deinsertion was first performed with the technical modification described below, followed by nephroureterectomy through a right subcostal incision. +The macroscopic description of the specimen shows a vegetative, exophytic and papillary lesion that occupies the middle calyx and part of the renal pelvis without infiltrating parenchyma. +Microscopically, the tumour was reported as a high-grade urothelial carcinoma that did not invade the lamina propria (Ta G3). +After four years of follow-up the patient is alive and free of disease. + +