RT Journal
A1 GALLOWAY NC, RAY C
T1 DIffuse glomerular metastases from hypernephroma
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 1964
FD December 1
VO 114
IS 6
SP 803
OP 805
DO 10.1001/archinte.1964.03860120115013
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1964.03860120115013
AB Many of the bizarre symptoms, laboratory findings, and metastatic behavior of hypernephroma are well known.1,2 This report is stimulated by our experience with a patient having a hypernephroma which metastasized to the glomeruli of the opposite kidney and caused renal failure. A review of recent literature did not reveal a previous description of this unusual metastatic spread.Report of Case 
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