Isolated metachronous contralateral adrenal metastasis from renal cell carcinoma.
Isolated contralateral adrenal metastasis from renal carcinoma is extremely rare. Patients who present with this entity often undergo surgery with the presumed diagnosis of an incidentaloma. A mass in the contralateral adrenal diagnosed following radical nephrectomy for renal carcinoma should be viewed with a high index of suspicion for the presence of metastatic disease. Surgery is the only effective management option and should be offered to these patients.
Sakorafas
George H
GH
Fourth Department of Surgery, Athens University, Medical School, ATTIKON University Hospital, 251 Hellenic Air Force Hospital, Athens, Greece. georgesakorafas@yahoo.com
Milingos
Dimitrios
D
Revelos
Kyriakos
K
Siafakas
John
J
Kontopoulos
Panayotis
P
Peros
George
G
D000310:Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D000315:Adrenalectomy; D000368:Aged; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*