Metastases to Both Parotid Glands Six and Twelve Years after Resection of Renal Cell Carcinoma

Achim M Franzen; Shirrell Glitzky; Ashok Moganti; Frank Lippek; Annekatrin Coordes

doi:10.1155/2018/7301727

Metastases to Both Parotid Glands Six and Twelve Years after Resection of Renal Cell Carcinoma

Case Rep Med. 2018 Feb 18:2018:7301727. doi: 10.1155/2018/7301727. eCollection 2018.

Authors

Achim M Franzen¹, Shirrell Glitzky¹, Ashok Moganti¹, Frank Lippek², Annekatrin Coordes³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Ruppiner-Kliniken GmbH, Brandenburg Medical University-Theodor Fontane, Campus Ruppiner Kliniken, Fehrbelliner Straße 38, 16816 Neuruppin, Germany.
² Institute of Pathology, Ruppiner-Kliniken GmbH, Brandenburg Medical University, Campus Ruppiner Kliniken, Fehrbelliner Straße 38, 16816 Neuruppin, Germany.
³ Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12200 Berlin, Germany.

Abstract

Metastases of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) involving the parotid gland are very rare. We present to our knowledge the first case of a 74-year-old woman with metastases of an RCC which affected both parotid glands six and twelve years following curative therapy.

Publication types

Case Reports