Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) has a propensity to metastasize to the chest, with the lungs being the most common distant metastatic site. The histologic subtype of RCC has implications for prognosis.
Significant advances have been made in the management of metastatic RCC, both in systemic and locoregional therapies. The aim of this article is to review appearances of intrathoracic metastases from RCC and to discuss treatment considerations.
AJR. American journal of roentgenology. 2018 Apr 09 [Epub ahead of print]
Melissa Price, Carol C Wu, Scott Genshaft, Peter M Sadow, Ling Xie, Jo-Anne O Shepard, Shaunagh McDermott
1 Division of Thoracic Imaging and Intervention, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit St, Founders 202, Boston, MA 02114., 2 Department of Diagnostic Radiology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX., 3 Thoracic Imaging and Intervention, Department of Radiological Sciences, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA., 4 Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.