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Skin Metastasis of Renal Cell Carcinoma: A Case Report

Metastasis of renal cell carcinoma is seen in approximately 25% of all cases. Rarely, they can appear in unusual sites. Herein, we present a 40-year-old female patient with an itching scalp mass. The mass appeared one year after the nephrectomy performed for a right renal cell carcinoma. Computed to...

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Autores principales: Ferhatoglu, Murat F, Senol, Kazim, Filiz, Ali I
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6340412/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30680270
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3614
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description Metastasis of renal cell carcinoma is seen in approximately 25% of all cases. Rarely, they can appear in unusual sites. Herein, we present a 40-year-old female patient with an itching scalp mass. The mass appeared one year after the nephrectomy performed for a right renal cell carcinoma. Computed tomography scans have not identified any metastasis during the postoperative evolution of the disease. We excised the mass with a large surgical margin under local anesthesia. Pathological examination of the lesion diagnosed metastasis of clear cell carcinoma. Our case is not just the rare metastatic site but also the fact that the tumor appeared despite its low grade (T2N0MO). Unfortunately, the prognosis of metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) with skin metastasis is in most cases unfavorable. We believe that our case could add more information to the following measures, complete the frame of rare oncologic cases and consolidate the data published on the topic so far. Although skin metastases are a poor sign of progression, disease-free follow-up is possible after appropriate surgical excision.
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spelling pubmed-63404122019-01-24 Skin Metastasis of Renal Cell Carcinoma: A Case Report Ferhatoglu, Murat F Senol, Kazim Filiz, Ali I Cureus Dermatology Metastasis of renal cell carcinoma is seen in approximately 25% of all cases. Rarely, they can appear in unusual sites. Herein, we present a 40-year-old female patient with an itching scalp mass. The mass appeared one year after the nephrectomy performed for a right renal cell carcinoma. Computed tomography scans have not identified any metastasis during the postoperative evolution of the disease. We excised the mass with a large surgical margin under local anesthesia. Pathological examination of the lesion diagnosed metastasis of clear cell carcinoma. Our case is not just the rare metastatic site but also the fact that the tumor appeared despite its low grade (T2N0MO). Unfortunately, the prognosis of metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) with skin metastasis is in most cases unfavorable. We believe that our case could add more information to the following measures, complete the frame of rare oncologic cases and consolidate the data published on the topic so far. Although skin metastases are a poor sign of progression, disease-free follow-up is possible after appropriate surgical excision. Cureus 2018-11-19 /pmc/articles/PMC6340412/ /pubmed/30680270 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3614 Text en Copyright © 2018, Ferhatoglu et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Ferhatoglu, Murat F
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Skin Metastasis of Renal Cell Carcinoma: A Case Report
title Skin Metastasis of Renal Cell Carcinoma: A Case Report
title_full Skin Metastasis of Renal Cell Carcinoma: A Case Report
title_fullStr Skin Metastasis of Renal Cell Carcinoma: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Skin Metastasis of Renal Cell Carcinoma: A Case Report
title_short Skin Metastasis of Renal Cell Carcinoma: A Case Report
title_sort skin metastasis of renal cell carcinoma: a case report
topic Dermatology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6340412/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30680270
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3614
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