Calvarial and cutaneous metastasis as the primary presentation of a renal cell carcinoma.
Renal cell carcinoma is an aggressive urological malignancy. Metastases from the lesion are encountered late in the course of the disease and most often involve the lung and the liver. It is rare that metastatic lesions are the primary presentation of an otherwise clinically silent renal cell carcinoma. We report a case who presented with calvarial and cutaneous lesions which were later found to be metastases from an asymptomatic renal cell carcinoma.
Department of Urology, CNMCH, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Tarun
T
Jindal
Department of Urology, CNMCH, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Rajan Kumar
RK
Sinha
Department of Urology, CNMCH, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Subhabrata
S
Mukherjee
Department of Urology, CNMCH, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Dilip
D
Karmakar
D000328:Adult; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness / Q000473:pathology; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary*; D012888:Skull Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods; D016312:Treatment Refusal