Case Reports in Oncology (Jul 2020)

Skin Metastasis of Renal Cell Carcinoma

  • Takahiro Mitomi,
  • Takashi Kawahara,
  • Shunsuke Nomura,
  • Shinnosuke Kuroda,
  • Tappei Takeshima,
  • Daiji Takamoto,
  • Masako Otani,
  • Hiroji Uemura

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1159/000508340
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 2
pp. 798 – 801

Abstract

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Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) accounts for around 3% of all cases of skin metastasis. In these patients, solitary metastasis from RCC shows a favorable prognosis. A 68-year-old woman was found to have a right renal tumor in 2009, and the pathological diagnosis was pathological T3 and grade 3 right clear cell RCC. Left-sided RCC developed and was resected in 2018. She subsequently noticed a cutaneous nodule on her abdomen. We performed surgical resection, and the pathological diagnosis was skin metastasis of RCC. We herein report a case of skin metastasis of RCC that developed 11 years after the initial diagnosis that was successfully treated by surgical resection.

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