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Renal papillae metastasis of sigmoid colon adenocarcinoma
Author(s) -
KİBAR YUSUF,
DEVECİ SALİH,
SÜMER FAHRİ,
SEÇKİN BEDRETTİN
Publication year - 2005
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 - 10.1111/j.1442-2042.2004.00971.x
Subject(s) - medicine , sigmoid colon , adenocarcinoma , kidney , metastasis , pathology , renal carcinoma , colon carcinoma , carcinoma , colorectal cancer , rectum , cancer
Colonic carcinoma metastatic to the kidney is very rare. The usual anatomical localization for secondary renal neoplasms is the renal cortex. We report a case of sigmoid colon carcinoma with unilateral kidney metastasis localized only in the renal papillae without obvious metastatic disease.