[Sarcomatoid renal carcinoma].
Sarcomatoid renal carcinoma is an uncommon but not rare histologic variant of renal carcinoma that accounts for 1-1.5% of all renal masses. It may originate from metaplasia of carcinomatous epithelial cells. Clinically, it generally presents as a large renal mass. The survival rate after diagnosis is approximately 6 months. We report on a 71-year-old male patient with general clinical features of paraneoplasia and a mass in the left kidney. Histological work up revealed a sarcomatoid renal carcinoma and the patient survived 4 months after the diagnosis was made.
Llarena Ibarguren
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Servicio de Urologia del Hospital de Cruces, Baracaldo, Vizcaya, España.
Zabala Egurrola
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Marín Lafuente
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Pérez Garcia
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Pertusa Peña
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D000368:Aged; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000145:classification / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D011379:Prognosis; D011859:Radiography
Carcinoma renal sarcomatoide.