[Cutaneous metastasis of a renal carcinoma: case report and review].
OBJECTIVE
To report another rare case of skin metastasis from a renal adenocarcinoma, analyzing the prognostic significance, response to therapy, and clinical presentation after a bibliographic review.


RESULTS
We report the case of a 65-year-old male with a cutaneous metastasis in the root of his inferior left extremity one year after right nephrectomy for a clear cell adenocarcinoma.


CONCLUSIONS
Skin metastases usually present as solitary cutaneous lesions of variable macroscopic features and rapid growing; the diagnosis is made by histological analysis, being excision the treatment of choice whenever possible. Prognosis is better for solitary lesions appearing asynchronously with the primary tumor, and among them the longer the time after diagnosis of initial lesion they appear the better the prognosis.
Barbagelata López
Alfonso
A
Servicio de Urología, Hospital Juan Canalejo, La Coruña, España. Barbagelata@telefonica.net
Ruibal Moldes
Manuel
M
Blanco Díez
Antonio
A
Fernández Rosado
Enrique
E
Ponce Díaz-Reixa
Jose Luis
JL
Novas Castro
Serafín
S
Lancina Martín
Alberto
A
González Martín
Marcelino
M
D000368:Aged; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000556:secondary*; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*