Synchronous collecting duct carcinoma and papillary renal cell carcinoma: a case report and review of the literature

Anticancer Res. 2005 Jan-Feb;25(1B):579-86.

Abstract

The coexistence of multiple and synchronous primary neoplasms in the same organ (including kidney) has only rarely been described in the literature. We herein present a case of collecting duct carcinoma (CDC) combined with papillary renal carcinoma (RCC) having a 57-month disease-free survival CDC is a rather rare and aggressive neoplasm of the kidney. Sharing probably the same embryological origin, synchronous or metachronous association with in situ orpapillary transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) may be found; association with RCC has been only once reported in the literature. The high incidence of c-erbB-2 oncogene amplification in CDC further characterizes this tumor as a separate entity from renal cell carcinoma, and shows some genetic characteristics in common with TCC. The histological diagnosis of Bellini CDC can be confirmed by the positive immunohistochemical staining with a collecting duct marker and distal tubule marker and negative staining with a proximal tubule marker.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Carcinoma / complications*
  • Carcinoma / diagnosis*
  • Carcinoma, Renal Cell / complications*
  • Carcinoma, Renal Cell / diagnosis*
  • Disease-Free Survival
  • Humans
  • Immunohistochemistry
  • Kidney / pathology
  • Kidney Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Kidney Neoplasms / pathology
  • Kidney Tubules, Collecting / pathology*
  • Male
  • Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / diagnosis
  • Receptor, ErbB-2 / biosynthesis
  • Time Factors
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Substances

  • Receptor, ErbB-2