Renal metastasis of thyroid carcinoma.
We report here the sixth known case of metastatic renal tumor of thyroid carcinoma. In 1999, a 37-year-old man was referred to us with a left renal mass found incidentally by ultrasound during an annual check-up. Computed tomography (CT) revealed a well-defined, hyperdense mass 3 cm in diameter in the middle of the left kidney. Left radical nephrectomy was performed under the preoperative diagnosis of renal cell carcinoma. Histologically, the tumor was metastatic of typical papillary thyroid carcinoma.
Abe
Kazuhiro
K
Department of Urology, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. ju-kazuo@sb4.so.net.jp
Hasegawa
Taro
T
Onodera
Shoichi
S
Oishi
Yukihiko
Y
Suzuki
Masafumi
M
D000328:Adult; D002291:Carcinoma, Papillary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed