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SUBMITTER: Mubarak MF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6162125 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ochsner journal 20180101 3
<h4>Background</h4>Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is responsible for nearly 13,000 deaths in the United States every year, predominantly because of metastasis to other bodily organs. However, metastasis of RCC to the stomach occurs rarely; it presents as solitary or multiple polyps or as ulcers concerning for primary gastric carcinoma. Bleeding from metastasis to the stomach is a rare and underrecognized cause of gastrointestinal bleeding. We describe a case of gastrointestinal bleeding in an elderl ...[more]