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Renal Clear Cell Carcinoma and Tonsil Metastasis

Renal cell carcinoma is the most common renal tumor in adults. Clear cell carcinoma represents 85% of all histological subtypes. In February 2012 a 72-year-old woman came to our department due to the appearance of massive hemoptysis and pharyngodinia. Previously, this patient was diagnosed with a re...

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Autores principales: Marcotullio, Dario, Iannella, Giannicola, Macri, Gian Franco, Marinelli, Caterina, Zelli, Melissa, Magliulo, Giuseppe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3877590/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24455373
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/315157
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author Marcotullio, Dario
Iannella, Giannicola
Macri, Gian Franco
Marinelli, Caterina
Zelli, Melissa
Magliulo, Giuseppe
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Marinelli, Caterina
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description Renal cell carcinoma is the most common renal tumor in adults. Clear cell carcinoma represents 85% of all histological subtypes. In February 2012 a 72-year-old woman came to our department due to the appearance of massive hemoptysis and pharyngodinia. Previously, this patient was diagnosed with a renal cell carcinoma treated with left nephrectomy. We observed an exophytic, grayish, and ulcerated mass in the left tonsillar lodge and decided to subject the patient to an immediate tonsillectomy. Postoperative histology showed nests of cells with highly hyperchromatic nuclei and clear cytoplasm. These features enabled us to make the diagnosis of renal clear cell carcinoma metastasis. Only few authors described metastasis of renal cell carcinoma in this specific site.
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spelling pubmed-38775902014-01-16 Renal Clear Cell Carcinoma and Tonsil Metastasis Marcotullio, Dario Iannella, Giannicola Macri, Gian Franco Marinelli, Caterina Zelli, Melissa Magliulo, Giuseppe Case Rep Otolaryngol Case Report Renal cell carcinoma is the most common renal tumor in adults. Clear cell carcinoma represents 85% of all histological subtypes. In February 2012 a 72-year-old woman came to our department due to the appearance of massive hemoptysis and pharyngodinia. Previously, this patient was diagnosed with a renal cell carcinoma treated with left nephrectomy. We observed an exophytic, grayish, and ulcerated mass in the left tonsillar lodge and decided to subject the patient to an immediate tonsillectomy. Postoperative histology showed nests of cells with highly hyperchromatic nuclei and clear cytoplasm. These features enabled us to make the diagnosis of renal clear cell carcinoma metastasis. Only few authors described metastasis of renal cell carcinoma in this specific site. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC3877590/ /pubmed/24455373 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/315157 Text en Copyright © 2013 Dario Marcotullio et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Marcotullio, Dario
Iannella, Giannicola
Macri, Gian Franco
Marinelli, Caterina
Zelli, Melissa
Magliulo, Giuseppe
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title Renal Clear Cell Carcinoma and Tonsil Metastasis
title_full Renal Clear Cell Carcinoma and Tonsil Metastasis
title_fullStr Renal Clear Cell Carcinoma and Tonsil Metastasis
title_full_unstemmed Renal Clear Cell Carcinoma and Tonsil Metastasis
title_short Renal Clear Cell Carcinoma and Tonsil Metastasis
title_sort renal clear cell carcinoma and tonsil metastasis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3877590/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24455373
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/315157
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