Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma to the Urinary Bladder after Radical Nephrectomy.
10.4111/kju.2007.48.10.1088
- Author:
Jung Hoon KIM
1
;
Soon Chul MYUNG
Author Information
1. Department of Urology, College of Medicine, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea. uromyung@yahoo.co.kr
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Renal cell carcinoma;
Urinary bladder;
Metastasis
- MeSH:
Carcinoma, Renal Cell*;
Cystoscopy;
Diagnosis;
Hematuria;
Humans;
Lymph Nodes;
Middle Aged;
Neoplasm Metastasis;
Nephrectomy*;
Polyploidy;
Thorax;
Urinary Bladder*
- From:Korean Journal of Urology
2007;48(10):1088-1091
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
We report a case of metastatic renal cell carcinoma to the urinary bladder. A 61-year-old man presented with gross hematuria. The patient had been treated with a radical nephrectomy at 59 years of age, for renal cell carcinoma. Cystoscopy revealed two polyploid tumors protruding into to the urinary bladder. A transurethral resection was performed and the pathological diagnosis of the lesion in the urinary bladder was a renal cell carcinoma. Metastases to the paratracheal lymph nodes were confirmed on the chest computed tomography. The patient was treated with immunotherapy(5-fluorouracil, interferon-a, interleukin-2) for 20 weeks. Eleven months later, the patient is alive and well.
