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CASE REPORT

Non-small cell lung carcinoma metastatic to the kidney

Ithaar H. Derweesh¹, Hazem R. Ismail¹, Cristina Magi-Galluzzi^1,2, Jonathan Hale³, David A. Goldfarb¹

1 Glickman Urological Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
2 Department of Anatomic Pathology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
3 Section of Abdominal Imaging, Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Address correspondence to Dr. Ithaar H. Derweesh, Department of Urology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, 956 Court Avenue, Rm H210, Memphis, TN 38163 USA

Canadian Journal of Urology 2006, 13(5), 3281-3282.

Abstract

Introduction: Renal metastasis by non-small cell lung cancer is uncommon and usually described at autopsy.
Case presentation: We report the rare case of a 77-year-old man with localized non-small cell lung carcinoma who underwent extirpative surgery and 2 years later presented with gross hematuria and was noted to have a large infiltrating renal mass on computed tomography.
Conclusions: In patients with a prior history of resected localized non-small cell lung carcinoma, presence of a renal lesion should prompt the clinician to consider the possibility of metastasis. Further evaluation should consider this scenario.

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