Primary Ureteral Stump Carcinoma: Rare Presentation and Management

Kyler W Perry; Zachariah Taylor; Javier Piraino; Gregory McMahon

doi:10.7759/cureus.29103

Primary Ureteral Stump Carcinoma: Rare Presentation and Management

Cureus. 2022 Sep 13;14(9):e29103. doi: 10.7759/cureus.29103. eCollection 2022 Sep.

Authors

Kyler W Perry¹, Zachariah Taylor², Javier Piraino², Gregory McMahon^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ General Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, USA.
² Urology, Main Line Health, Wynnewood, USA.
³ Urology, Midlantic Urology, Philadelphia, USA.

Abstract

Primary ureteral stump carcinoma is a rare occurrence in patients who receive radical nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Only 11 previous cases have been reported in the literature. We report a case of synchronous bilateral RCC and colon adenocarcinoma with the subsequent development of primary ureteral stump carcinoma that was treated with robotic ureterectomy and bladder cuff excision. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of this presentation.

Keywords: colon adenocarcinoma; radical nephrectomy; renal cell carcinoma; synchronous malignancies; ureteral stump carcinoma.

Publication types

Case Reports