An unusual case of three synchronous tumors in a young woman.
The occurrence in the same young patient of three synchronous tumors deriving from different embryogenic tissues and without a clear correlation with a common etiopathogenic factor is very unusual. We report a case of a Caucasian woman submitted to wide resection of a large retroperitoneal liposarcoma and right radical nephrectomy for suspected tumor infiltration. Histological examination of the right ureter and renal pelvis showed the presence of a multifocal urothelial carcinoma that was clinically asymptomatic. Two months later, during follow-up, chest X-ray and computed tomography documented a coin lesion of the upper left lung, confirmed by positron emission tomography. This nodule was surgically removed and examined histologically, resulting in a diagnosis of sclerosing hemangioma. The patient is alive without evidence of recurrent disease.
Longo
Raffaele
R
Unità Operativa di Oncologia Medica, Azienda Complesso Operativo (ACO) San Filippo Neri, Roma, Italy.
Carillio
Guido
G
Torrisi
Antonietta
A
Tocco
Maria Pia
MP
Grassi
Giovanni Battista
GB
Marrese
Renato
R
Fanasca
Angelo
A
Balistreri
Paolo
P
Gasparini
Giampietro
G
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008080:Liposarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D008875:Middle Aged; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D047868:Pulmonary Sclerosing Hemangioma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014516:Ureteral Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*