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Is there any indication for monitoring for renal medullary carcinoma in patients with sickle cell trait?

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Hematology · Boston University School of Medicine

Hematuria occurs episodically in approximately 5% of people with sickle cell trait. Although often recurrent and sometimes producing anemia, the causes of hematuria are usually benign and it is self-limited. Medullary carcinoma of the kidney is a rare highly aggressive tumor that occurs almost exclu...

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