Author(s)

Noël Coulibaly¹, Evrard Yao¹, Fatoumata Ouattara-Cissé¹, Tawakaltu Bolasade Adebayo¹, Servais Sai², Lamine Bamba¹, Koffi Djè³

¹Urology Department of Treichville University Hospital, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.
²Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Treichville University Hospital, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.
³Urology Department of Bouaké University Hospital, Bouaké, Côte d’Ivoire.

Background: A thrombus of the inferior vena cava and renal vein makes the management of renal cancer more difficult. Aim: The aim is to highlight and discuss the management of a case of renal cancer with an unusual thrombus in our context. Case Presentation: We report the case of a 49-year-old female with left kidney cancer, complicated by a calcified thrombus of the renal vein and inferior vena cava. A calcification of renal vein and vena cava was discovered during surgery, even though the diagnosis prior to surgery was a renal tumor with partial thrombus of the IVC. We performed a thrombectomy and left nephrectomy. The post-operative course was marked by the death of the patient a month later. Conclusion: Renal vein and inferior vena cava (IVC) calcifications are uncommon. Preoperative diagnosis is difficult but guided by medical imaging. Renal cancer is one of the causes. A thrombus or calcification of the vena cava worsens the prognosis of cancer.

Renal Cell Carcinoma, Inferior Vena Cava Thrombus, Thrombectomy

Coulibaly, N. , Yao, E. , Ouattara-Cissé, F. , Adebayo, T. , Sai, S. , Bamba, L. and Djè, K. (2021) Calcification of the Renal Vein and Inferior Vena Cava on a Renal Tumor: An Exceptional Case. Open Journal of Urology, 11, 413-419. doi: 10.4236/oju.2021.1111040.