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Renal cell carcinoma presenting with brain metastasis from a 1.6 cm primary tumor
James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Address correspondence to Dr. Heather Chalfin, 733 N
Broadway/ BRB 137, Baltimore, MD 21205 USA
Canadian Journal of Urology 2013, 20(5), 6964-6967.
Abstract
Small renal cell carcinoma (RCC) tumors are believed to have a negligible risk of metastasis. We report on a 77-year-old man presenting with extremity weakness who was found to have a 2.5 cm brain metastasis from a subsequently discovered 1.6 cm clear cell RCC primary tumor. We review what is known about synchronous and metachronous metastasis from small renal tumors and prognostic features informing treatment for such lesions.Keywords
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Copyright © 2013 The Author(s). Published by Tech Science Press.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.


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