title: Renal metastasis of malignant melanoma with unknown primary.
abstract: The kidney is a common location for micrometastases in patients with malignant melanomas. These lesions are usually small, multiple, asymptomatic, and bilateral, and associated with a known primary lesion. This is an unusual case of a 38-year-old woman, with no history of melanoma, presenting with an asymptomatic solitary renal mass and two lung masses. She was doing well 3 months after laparoscopic radical nephrectomy and one course of interleukin-2 therapy.
authors.affiliation: Division of Urology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA. mshim001@umaryland.edu
authors.forename: Mark S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Shimko
authors.forename: Stephen C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Jacobs
authors.forename: Michael W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Phelan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D007376:Interleukin-2 / Q000627:therapeutic use; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary* / Q000628:therapy; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D008545:Melanoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary* / Q000628:therapy; D009382:Neoplasms, Unknown Primary / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009392:Nephrectomy / Q000379:methods; D011379:Prognosis; D018570:Risk Assessment; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D007376:Interleukin-2