RENAL CELL CARCINOMA WITH SOLITARY CONTRALATERAL ADRENAL METASTASIS: EXPERIENCE WITH 2 CASES

PREVITE, STEVEN R.
WILLSCHER, MAX K.
BURKE, CHARLES R.

From the Department of Urology, Boston University Medical Center, Boston
Department of Urology (Surgery), Bon Secours Hospital, Methuen, Massachusetts
Catholic Medical Center, Manchester, New Hampshire

Accepted for publication September 11, 1981.

Journal of Urology 128(1):p 132-134, July 1982. | DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5347(17)52784-6

We report 2 cases of renal cell carcinoma with solitary contralateral adrenal metastasis. Such a presentation of hypernephroma is rare, with only 3 such cases having been found in the literature, none of which was diagnosed correctly preoperatively. Our 2 patients are alive with no evidence of disease 20 and 24 months, respectively, after radical nephrectomy and contralateral adrenalectomy.