An unusual cause of irritable urinary bladder symptoms

A metastasis from a renal cell carcinoma to a seminal vesicle is extremely rare. This pattern of metastatic disease has been reported once previously in the Japanese literature, We describe a patient with irritability symptom s of the urine bladder and involuntary loss of stool caused by obstruction of the bladder by a large metastasis from a renal cell carcinoma to the sem inal vesicle, The mode of diagnosis and treatment of this patient are descr ibed, Copyright (C) 2001 S. Karger AG. Basel.