A rare case of renal and uterine clear cell carcinoma: Which is the primary tumour?

✍ Scribed by Ho, Christopher ;Anuar, Noraini ;Nurismah, M. ;Singam, Praveen ;Goh, Eng ;Zainuddin, Zulkifli

• Book ID: 111489982
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 999 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 2391-5463
• DOI: 10.2478/s11536-011-0008-2

✦ Synopsis

Renal cell carcinoma to the uterus is rare. We describe a 52-year old lady who presented with progressive abdominal distension and computerized tomogram scan of the abdomen showing two pathologies; uterine and right renal tumour. It was initially thought to be two distinct tumours (double pathology). Radical nephrectomy and total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy was performed concurrently. Histopathological evaluation of the uterine and right renal tumour however surprised us with a rare form of metastasis from a renal tumour to the uterus. The method of differentiating primary renal cell carcinoma with uterine metastasis, from primary uterine carcinoma with renal metastasis, via immunohistochemistry, is described.