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Unusual Ultrasound Presentation of Testicular Metastasis from Renal Clear Cell Carcinoma

Testicular metastases from renal clear cell carcinoma (RCC) are extremely uncommon. To the best of our knowledge, only 32 cases have been reported in the literature. We report a rare case of testicular metastasis from RCC. A 69-year-old patient presented with discomfort and pain in his left testis....

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Autor principal: Dell’Atti, Lucio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5064302/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27746886
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/rt.2016.6471
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description Testicular metastases from renal clear cell carcinoma (RCC) are extremely uncommon. To the best of our knowledge, only 32 cases have been reported in the literature. We report a rare case of testicular metastasis from RCC. A 69-year-old patient presented with discomfort and pain in his left testis. He had undergone laparoscopic left radical nephrectomy at another institution. Scrotal ultrasonography revealed a non-palpable lesion at the upper pole of the left testis with hypoechoic aspect, highly suspicious for malignancy. We performed a left inguinal orchiectomy. The testicular lesion was diagnosed as a metastasis from RCC. After orchiectomy, a computed tomography of the chest and abdomen revealed no other metastatic lesions. The patient remains free of clinical recurrence after 20 months without adjuvant therapy.
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spelling pubmed-50643022016-10-14 Unusual Ultrasound Presentation of Testicular Metastasis from Renal Clear Cell Carcinoma Dell’Atti, Lucio Rare Tumors Case Report Testicular metastases from renal clear cell carcinoma (RCC) are extremely uncommon. To the best of our knowledge, only 32 cases have been reported in the literature. We report a rare case of testicular metastasis from RCC. A 69-year-old patient presented with discomfort and pain in his left testis. He had undergone laparoscopic left radical nephrectomy at another institution. Scrotal ultrasonography revealed a non-palpable lesion at the upper pole of the left testis with hypoechoic aspect, highly suspicious for malignancy. We performed a left inguinal orchiectomy. The testicular lesion was diagnosed as a metastasis from RCC. After orchiectomy, a computed tomography of the chest and abdomen revealed no other metastatic lesions. The patient remains free of clinical recurrence after 20 months without adjuvant therapy. PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2016-10-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5064302/ /pubmed/27746886 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/rt.2016.6471 Text en ©Copyright L. Dell’Atti http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Unusual Ultrasound Presentation of Testicular Metastasis from Renal Clear Cell Carcinoma
title_fullStr Unusual Ultrasound Presentation of Testicular Metastasis from Renal Clear Cell Carcinoma
title_full_unstemmed Unusual Ultrasound Presentation of Testicular Metastasis from Renal Clear Cell Carcinoma
title_short Unusual Ultrasound Presentation of Testicular Metastasis from Renal Clear Cell Carcinoma
title_sort unusual ultrasound presentation of testicular metastasis from renal clear cell carcinoma
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5064302/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27746886
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/rt.2016.6471
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