• Division of Urology
  Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center,
  Tel Aviv, Israel
  

Yuval Bar-Yosef,  MD

• Division of Urology
  Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center,
  Tel Aviv, Israel
  

Letizia Schreiber-Bramante,  MD

• Division of Pathology
  Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center,
  Tel Aviv, Israel
  

Issac Kaver1,  MD

• Division of Urology
  Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center,
  Tel Aviv, Israel
  

Haim Matzkin,  MD

• Division of Urology
  Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center,
  Tel Aviv, Israel
  

Renal cell carcinoma has the tendency to form venous thrombi. This may involve the renal veins or the inferior vena cava and may extend cephalad/antegrade into the right atrium. We report a patient with renal cell carcinoma who had an intracaval tumor thrombus that had extended into the right spermatic vein. We believe this to be the first description in English literature of a histologically proven renal cell carcinoma thrombus in the spermatic vein.

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