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. 2016 Aug;12(2):1181-1184.
doi: 10.3892/etm.2016.3402. Epub 2016 May 26.

Surgical monotherapy may be a suitable therapeutic strategy for advanced collecting (Bellini) duct carcinoma: A case report and literature review

Liang Zhu  1 , Zijian Wang  1 , Cizhong Pan  1 , Ran Peng  2 , Xiong Wei  1 , Zhaohui Zhong  1
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Surgical monotherapy may be a suitable therapeutic strategy for advanced collecting (Bellini) duct carcinoma: A case report and literature review

Liang Zhu et al. Exp Ther Med. 2016 Aug.

Abstract

Collecting duct carcinoma (CDC), which is also known as Bellini duct carcinoma, accounts for less than 1% of all renal cell carcinoma, which has a poor prognosis. Predominantly, clinicians recognize this disease due to past experience and case reports, and a standard treatment is yet to be established. The present case report describes a 57-year-old male patient with CDC who was successfully treated with a left laparoscopic radical nephrectomy without any adjuvant therapy and compares the present patient's clinical presentation with previously reported cases. By analyzing the differences between these cases, the findings of the present case report and literature review suggested that surgery alone remains the only suitable choice for patients with advanced CDC.

Keywords: Bellini; carcinoma; renal cell; therapeutics.

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Figure 1.
Computed tomography scanning demonstrated (A) a heterogeneously enhanced tumor with a maximum diameter of 71 mm and (B) enlarged retroperitoneal lymph nodes that engulfed the left renal artery.
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