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Urethral metastasis from renal cell carcinoma
Author(s) -
SENZAKI HIROYA,
OKAMURA TAKEHIKO,
TATSURA HIROYUKI,
WATASE HIDEKI
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
international journal of urology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.172
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1442-2042
pISSN - 0919-8172
DOI - 10.1046/j.1442-2042.2003.00717.x
Subject(s) - medicine , metastasis , urethra , renal cell carcinoma , prostatic urethra , urology , carcinoma , prostate , resection , pathology , surgery , cancer
A case of metastasis to the prostatic urethra after transurethral resection of the prostate from a previously resected renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is reported here. Solitary urethral metastasis from RCC is extremely rare. Only four cases of urethral metastasis from RCC have been previously reported in the literature.