Surgical excision of duodenal/pancreatic metastatic renal cell carcinoma

Front Oncol. 2014 Aug 14:4:218. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2014.00218. eCollection 2014.

Abstract

Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) has a potential to metastasize to almost any site and this may occur many years following nephrectomy. We present six cases with uncommon sites of metastasis: four patients presented with distal pancreatic metastasis and two with duodenal/head of the pancreas metastasis. Time to metastatic disease varied from 1 to 19 years following renal surgery. For patients are alive and two succumbed to their disease. Long-term survival can be achieved with aggressive surgical excision of disease.

Keywords: metastatic disease; nephrectomy; renal cell carcinoma; renal surgery.