title: Surgical monotherapy may be a suitable therapeutic strategy for advanced collecting (Bellini) duct carcinoma: A case report and literature review.
abstract: Collecting duct carcinoma (CDC), which is also known as Bellini duct carcinoma, accounts for less than 1% of all renal cell carcinoma, which has a poor prognosis. Predominantly, clinicians recognize this disease due to past experience and case reports, and a standard treatment is yet to be established. The present case report describes a 57-year-old male patient with CDC who was successfully treated with a left laparoscopic radical nephrectomy without any adjuvant therapy and compares the present patient's clinical presentation with previously reported cases. By analyzing the differences between these cases, the findings of the present case report and literature review suggested that surgery alone remains the only suitable choice for patients with advanced CDC.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410011, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Liang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410011, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Zijian
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410011, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Cizhong
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pan
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410011, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Ran
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410011, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Xiong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410011, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Zhaohui
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhong
keywords: Bellini; carcinoma; renal cell; therapeutics