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Case Reports
. 2023 Aug:109:108600.
doi: 10.1016/j.ijscr.2023.108600. Epub 2023 Jul 29.

Unilateral ovarian metastasis from renal clear cell carcinoma

Bencherifi Younes  1 , Watik Fedoua  2 , Cherkaoui Amal  2 , Mustapha Benhessou  2 , Simohamed Ennachit  2 , Mohammed El Karroumi  2
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Case Reports

Unilateral ovarian metastasis from renal clear cell carcinoma

Bencherifi Younes et al. Int J Surg Case Rep. 2023 Aug.

Abstract

Introduction and importance: Ovarian metastases of renal origin are rarely reported in the literature and pose a diagnostic problem because they are usually diagnosed at a distance from the primary cancer.

Presentation of case: We report a case of unilateral ovarian metastasis from clear cell renal cell carcinoma fifteen years after nephrectomy in a fifty-six-year-old patient who underwent surgery for an abdominopelvic mass.

Clinical discussion: The diagnosis of ovarian metastases can be made at the same time as the diagnosis of the primary cancer or at a distance from it, with an interval ranging from a few months to years later. In the case of our patient, the ovarian metastasis was diagnosed fifteen years after the nephrectomy.

Conclusion: Ovarian metastases are exceptional secondary localizations of renal cancer, they can be unilateral or bilateral, and are usually discovered several years after the renal tumor.

Keywords: Nephrectomy; Ovarian metastases; Renal cell carcinoma.

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Conflict of interest statement The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

Figures

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Image of nephrectomy scar.
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Scan image of ovarian mass.
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Per operative image of the left ovarian mass.
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Image after excision of the mass.
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