Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Presenting as Prolonged Pyrexia and Stauffers Syndrome: Can a Routine Ultrasound Scan Fail to Detect a Renal Cell Carcinoma?

摘要

Background Prolonged pyrexia and weight loss are recognised paraneoplastic manifestations of renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Stauffer's syndrome is a rarely described paraneoplastic manifestation, which is described early in the course of RCC. We report a patient who presented with unresolving fever with multiple pulmonary opacities with biochemical evidence of hepatic choleastasis and was later diagnosed to have metastatic RCC with Stauffer's syndrome.