The lady who presented as a “sleep emergency”
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A 58-year-old lady presented as an emergency with right upper quadrant pain and loss of 5 stones in weight. What does the X-ray show?
KEY CLINICAL MESSAGE Renal cell cancers are among the great mimics in surgery as they present with myriad symptoms unrelated to the renal cancer. This patient also interestingly had an incidental finding of porcelain gall bladder.
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Sleep Medicine
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0973-340X,0973-8746
DOI: 10.5005/ijsm-6-1-24