Unusual Ultrasound Presentation of Testicular Metastasis from Renal Clear Cell Carcinoma
Author(s) -
Lucio Dell’Atti
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
rare tumors
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.285
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 2036-3613
pISSN - 2036-3605
DOI - 10.4081/rt.2016.6471
Subject(s) - medicine , nephrectomy , orchiectomy , malignancy , renal cell carcinoma , radiology , metastasis , lesion , presentation (obstetrics) , abdomen , scrotum , surgery , kidney , pathology , cancer
Testicular metastases from renal clear cell carcinoma (RCC) are extremely uncommon. To the best of our knowledge, only 32 cases have been reported in the literature. We report a rare case of testicular metastasis from RCC. A 69-year-old patient presented with discomfort and pain in his left testis. He had undergone laparoscopic left radical nephrectomy at another institution. Scrotal ultrasonography revealed a non-palpable lesion at the upper pole of the left testis with hypoechoic aspect, highly suspicious for malignancy. We performed a left inguinal orchiectomy. The testicular lesion was diagnosed as a metastasis from RCC. After orchiectomy, a computed tomography of the chest and abdomen revealed no other metastatic lesions. The patient remains free of clinical recurrence after 20 months without adjuvant therapy
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