Question 47 (part 2) · LEK · Kidney cancer

The following features of paraneoplastic syndrome may occur in the clinical picture of kidney cancer:

  1. A. fever, erythrocytosis, anaemia, hypocalcaemia, hypertension.
  2. B. fever, erythrocytosis, anaemia, hypercalcaemia, hypertension.
  3. C. fever, erythrocytosis, anaemia, hypokalaemia, hypertension.
  4. D. fever, erythrocytosis, anaemia, hyperkalaemia, hypertension.
  5. E. fever, erythrocytosis, anaemia, hyponatraemia, hypertension.
Hint

Renal cell carcinoma can secrete a PTH-related peptide — consider which electrolyte disturbance that produces.

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