Solitary colonic metastasis of renal cell carcinoma.
We report a rare case of a solitary metastasis of a renal cell carcinoma which manifested as a primary colonic tumour. A 60-year-old male patient who had undergone a right radical nephrectomy 5 years previously for renal cell carcinoma, presented with a history of dyspepsia and pain in the right upper abdomen. A mass on the hepatic flexure was detected by computed tomography and colonoscopy and right hemicolectomy was performed. Postoperative histological examination revealed that the tumour was a metastatic renal cell carcinoma of the clear cell type.
Department of General Surgery, Sisli Etfal Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey. dryetkin@yahoo.com
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D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D003082:Colectomy; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D003113:Colonoscopy; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009392:Nephrectomy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed