Ipsilateral synchronous renal cell carcinoma and transitional cell carcinoma

J Korean Med Sci. 1994 Dec;9(6):466-70. doi: 10.3346/jkms.1994.9.6.466.

Abstract

The simultaneous occurrence of renal cell carcinoma(RCC) and transitional cell carcinoma(TCC) in the same kidney is unusual. We report a 53-year-old man with ipsilateral synchronous renal adenocarcinoma and renal pelvic transitional cell carcinoma with severe hypercalcemia and a huge staghorn calculus in the opposite kidney. The patient was admitted to the hospital because of left flank pain and intermittent fever which he had had for 2 months. Computerized tomography revealed a huge stone in the right kidney and a mass in the upper pole with an irregular calcified pelvis in the left enlarged kidney. Left radical nephrectomy was done. A section of the specimen revealed a renal cell carcinoma located at the upper pole and a papillary transitional cell carcinoma arising from the renal pelvis. This is a rare case of combined renal malignancies.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Carcinoma, Renal Cell* / pathology
  • Carcinoma, Renal Cell* / surgery
  • Carcinoma, Transitional Cell* / pathology
  • Carcinoma, Transitional Cell* / surgery
  • Humans
  • Hypercalcemia / etiology
  • Kidney Calculi / complications
  • Kidney Calculi / surgery
  • Kidney Neoplasms* / pathology
  • Kidney Neoplasms* / surgery
  • Kidney Pelvis
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasms, Multiple Primary* / pathology
  • Neoplasms, Multiple Primary* / surgery
  • Nephrectomy