Clinically Undiagnosed Prostate Carcinoma Metastatic to Renal Oncocytoma
Author(s) -
Adam Horn,
Bari E. Fritz,
Chad A. LaGrange,
William W. West,
Subodh M. Lele
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
case reports in urology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2090-696X
pISSN - 2090-6978
DOI - 10.1155/2012/307813
Subject(s) - medicine , renal oncocytoma , oncocytoma , metastasis , pathology , neoplasm , kidney , adenocarcinoma , prostate , renal parenchyma , renal cell carcinoma , cancer
Tumors-to-tumor metastasis is an uncommon occurrence and can be a source of great diagnostic difficulty, especially when the donor tumor is undiagnosed. Here we report a case of a kidney resected for a primary neoplasm (oncocytoma) that harbored metastases from a clinically undiagnosed prostatic adenocarcinoma. The presence of the poorly differentiated metastasis within an otherwise typical oncocytoma in the absence of metastases in the surrounding nonneoplastic renal parenchyma resulted in a diagnostic dilemma. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a case in the English literature of a clinically undiagnosed prostatic adenocarcinoma metastatic to a renal oncocytoma identified on examination of the resected renal neoplasm.
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