Radical nephrectomy for a giant chromophobe renal cell carcinoma diagnosed > 17 years previously: a case report and literature review

Jianhua Lan; Dong Lan; Wenqiang Yuan; Qiao Ying; Jiahong He; Yonglin Gu

doi:10.3389/fonc.2024.1352689

Radical nephrectomy for a giant chromophobe renal cell carcinoma diagnosed > 17 years previously: a case report and literature review

Front Oncol. 2024 Apr 3:14:1352689. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2024.1352689. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Jianhua Lan¹, Dong Lan¹, Wenqiang Yuan¹, Qiao Ying¹, Jiahong He², Yonglin Gu³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Urology, People's Hospital of Guang'an City, Guang'an, Sichuan, China.
² Department of Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, People's Hospital of Guang'an City, Guang'an, Sichuan, China.
³ Department of Cardiology, People's Hospital of Guang'an City, Guang'an, Sichuan, China.

Abstract

Early diagnosis of renal cell carcinoma relies on imaging tests such as ultrasound, computed tomography, or magnetic resonance imaging. Since surgery is associated with a favorable prognosis, the standard treatment for clinically limited renal cell carcinoma remains surgical resection. Among asymptomatic patients with localized renal cell carcinoma, a small number refuse surgical treatment and survive. We report a case involving a 59-year-old female who underwent a difficult radical nephrectomy 17 years after being diagnosed with malignant tumors due to primary renal cell carcinoma.

Keywords: chromophobe renal cell carcinoma; gigantic renal cancer; kidney; kidney cancer; radical nephrectomy.

Publication types

Case Reports

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This work was supported by the fund of the high quality development of Guang ‘an People’s Hospital (grant no. 21FZ013) and Key project of science and technology innovation in Guang’an City (grant no. 2022SYF01).