Unilateral ovarian metastasis from renal clear cell carcinoma

INTRODUCTION AND IMPORTANCE: Ovarian metastases of renal origin are rarely reported in the literature and pose a diagnostic problem because they are usually diagnosed at a distance from the primary cancer. PRESENTATION OF CASE: We report a case of unilateral ovarian metastasis from clear cell renal cell carcinoma fifteen years after nephrectomy in a fifty-six-year-old patient who underwent surgery for an abdominopelvic mass. CLINICAL DISCUSSION: The diagnosis of ovarian metastases can be made at the same time as the diagnosis of the primary cancer or at a distance from it, with an interval ranging from a few months to years later. In the case of our patient, the ovarian metastasis was diagnosed fifteen years after the nephrectomy. CONCLUSION: Ovarian metastases are exceptional secondary localizations of renal cancer, they can be unilateral or bilateral, and are usually discovered several years after the renal tumor.