Wandering Cancer Cells: Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Without Evidence of a Primary Tumor

Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) usually presents clinically in the advanced stage including bone metastasis. However metastatic RCC without evidence of a primary tumor in the kidney is extremely rare. We herein report a case of a 70-year-old male initially evaluated for bone lesion and diagnosed with bio...

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Autores principales: Hlaing, Swe Swe, Desai, Devashish, Goyal, Aakash, Rai, Navjot, Swaab, Ronald
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Pathology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9309091/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35898368
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26305
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author Hlaing, Swe Swe
Desai, Devashish
Goyal, Aakash
Rai, Navjot
Swaab, Ronald
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description Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) usually presents clinically in the advanced stage including bone metastasis. However metastatic RCC without evidence of a primary tumor in the kidney is extremely rare. We herein report a case of a 70-year-old male initially evaluated for bone lesion and diagnosed with biopsy-proven metastatic clear cell RCC without a renal primary. Given the rare nature of the disease, there is no standardized course of treatment that has yet been established. We believe that our case will add to the body of knowledge about uncommon oncologic instances and consolidate the information that has already been published.
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spelling pubmed-93090912022-07-26 Wandering Cancer Cells: Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Without Evidence of a Primary Tumor Hlaing, Swe Swe Desai, Devashish Goyal, Aakash Rai, Navjot Swaab, Ronald Cureus Pathology Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) usually presents clinically in the advanced stage including bone metastasis. However metastatic RCC without evidence of a primary tumor in the kidney is extremely rare. We herein report a case of a 70-year-old male initially evaluated for bone lesion and diagnosed with biopsy-proven metastatic clear cell RCC without a renal primary. Given the rare nature of the disease, there is no standardized course of treatment that has yet been established. We believe that our case will add to the body of knowledge about uncommon oncologic instances and consolidate the information that has already been published. Cureus 2022-06-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9309091/ /pubmed/35898368 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26305 Text en Copyright © 2022, Hlaing et al. https://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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Wandering Cancer Cells: Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Without Evidence of a Primary Tumor
title Wandering Cancer Cells: Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Without Evidence of a Primary Tumor
title_full Wandering Cancer Cells: Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Without Evidence of a Primary Tumor
title_fullStr Wandering Cancer Cells: Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Without Evidence of a Primary Tumor
title_full_unstemmed Wandering Cancer Cells: Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Without Evidence of a Primary Tumor
title_short Wandering Cancer Cells: Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Without Evidence of a Primary Tumor
title_sort wandering cancer cells: metastatic renal cell carcinoma without evidence of a primary tumor
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9309091/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35898368
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26305
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