A Case of Renal Cell Carcinoma Metastasizing to Pancreas and Skin 19 Years after Nephrectomy

Satoru Motoyama, Hideo Terashima, Tomio Matsuoka, Masahiro Saito*, Shichisaburo Abo**

Department of Surgery, Hiraka General Hospital
First Department of Pathology* and Second Department of Surgery**, Akita University School of Medicine

A case of renal cell carcinoma, that metastasized to the pancreas and skin is reported. The patient was a 67-year-old woman who relapsed 19 years after surgical treatment of the primary lesion and was diagnosed to have two metastatic pancreatic tumors and a solitary subctaneous nodule. As dissemination of this malignancy to the pancreas occurs infrequently after radical surgery, only 17 cases of this type of recurrence have been documented in the literature. Surgical resection of the metastatic pancreatic tumor as well as the skin lesion was successfully carried out in this case.

Key words
renal cell carcinoma, pancreas metastasis, skin metastasis

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Satoru Motoyama Second Department of Surgery, Akita University of Medicine
1-1-1 Hondo, Akita, 010 JAPAN

Accepted
September 8, 1993

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