Solitary contralateral renal pelvis metastasis 9 years after removal of renal adenocarcinoma.
Extremely rarely, renal cell carcinoma metastasizes to the contralateral renal pelvis or ureter. The present report concerns a case where a metastatic tumour was successfully removed from the left renal pelvis 9 years after right nephrectomy for the primary tumour.
Moudouni
S M
SM
Department of Urology, Hôpital Pontchaillou CHU, Rennes, France. s_moudouni@yahoo.fr
En-Nia
Rioux-Leclerq
N
N
Manunta
A
A
Guillé
F
F
Lobel
B
B
D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013997:Time Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome