Although local recurrence of renal cell carcinoma after laparoscopic radical nephrectomy is sometimes reported, cystic local recurrence of renal cell carcinoma has rarely been reported.
We report the case of a 59-year-old man with hemodialysis who developed cystic local recurrence of renal cell carcinoma accompanied by acquired cystic disease of the kidney in the retroperitoneal space after laparoscopic radical nephrectomy. A cystic tumor of 5.1 cm in diameter occurred in the left retroperitoneal space 15 months after left laparoscopic radical nephrectomy, and enlarged to 7.2 cm in diameter with enhanced mass along the wall of the cyst 36 months after surgery. The cystic tumor was removed and showed local recurrence of renal cell carcinoma on pathological examination.
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Ito K, Takagi T, Kondo T, Yoshida K, Iizuka J, Kobayashi H, Tomita E, Hashimoto Y, Tanabe K. Are you the author?
Department of Urology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.
Reference: Int J Urol. 2013 Aug 4. Epub ahead of print.
doi: 10.1111/iju.12239
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 23909823
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