title: Renal pelvic recurrence of renal cell carcinoma.
abstract: An 85-year-old man was referred for gross hematuria and a recurrent renal pelvic mass in a solitary left kidney, status post right nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma 11 years previously. Three years before referral he had undergone ureteroscopic fulguration of a renal pelvis mass that had proved to be metastatic renal cell carcinoma on biopsy. We performed percutaneous resection of the renal pelvic mass, with no local recurrence at 1-year follow up. Contralateral renal pelvic recurrence is a rare form of renal cell carcinoma metastasis.
authors.affiliation: University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5330, USA.
authors.forename: R Matthew
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: J Stuart
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Wolf
mesh_terms: D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014567:Urography