Late-Onset Distant Metastatic Upper Urinary Tract Urothelial Carcinoma Mimicking Lung Adenocarcinoma.
- Author:
Jun Hyeok LIM
1
;
Sang Hoon JEON
;
Jeong Min LEE
;
Lucia KIM
;
Jae Hwa CHO
;
Jeong Seon RYU
;
Seung Min KWAK
;
Hong Lyeol LEE
;
Hae Seong NAM
Author Information
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords: Carcinoma; Urothelium; Urinary Tract; Adenocarcinoma of Lung
- MeSH: Adenocarcinoma; Lung; Lung Neoplasms; Neoplasm Metastasis; Rare Diseases; Recurrence; Urinary Bladder; Urinary Tract; Urothelium
- From:Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 2013;75(1):32-35
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
- Abstract: Urothelial carcinomas (UCs) can occur in the upper urinary tract or lower urinary tract. Upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma (UUT-UC) is relatively a rare disease and accounts for only about 5% of UC cases. Sporadic cases of late-onset metastasis, associated with UC of the bladder, have occasionally been reported. In contrast, no late-onset distant metastatic UUT-UC without local recurrence has, to the best of our knowledge, been reported in the English literature. We report an extremely rare case of distant metastatic UC, mimicking lung adenocarcinoma that originated from UUT-UC 12 years previously.
