Presentation of CaseA 65-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of pain in the flank.He was well until six months earlier, when anorexia, fatigue and malaise developed, associated with urinary urgency and frequency and a diminution of the urinary stream. Three months before admission he began to have intermittent dull pain in the left flank that did not radiate and was relieved by aspirin. A physician found a mass in the left upper quadrant of the abdomen; a stool specimen gave a negative test for occult blood. Eight days before entry a nephrotomographic examination revealed uniform enlargement . . .
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