Vaginal metastasis of a clear renal cell carcinoma

Arch Esp Urol. 2011 May;64(4):380-3.
[Article in English, Spanish]

Abstract

Objective: Remember that kidney cancer is a disease whose incidence is increasing due to increased use of additional imaging tests, which is changing the way of diagnosis, making the classic clinical syndrome synonymous with advanced illness.

Methods: We report the case of a patient with a right renal tumor with renal vein involvement that in the natural course of the disease showed a vaginal metastasis of clear renal cell carcinoma, which was treated with surgical excision.

Results: This case is a clear example of how unpredictable is the clinical evolution of this disease and how little we know about the way of dissemination.

Conclusions: Local excision, with or without radiotherapy, or radiotherapy alone are recommended in cases of unique metastasis after nephrectomy.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Carcinoma, Renal Cell / secondary*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Kidney Neoplasms / pathology
  • Vaginal Neoplasms / secondary*