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Colonic metastasis from renal cell carcinoma: helical-CT demonstration
M J Díaz-Candamio1, S Pombo, F Pombo
1Servicio de Radiología, Hospital Juan Canalejo, Xubias de Arriba 84, E-15006 A Coruña, Spain.
European Radiology
|February 9, 2000
Abstract:
Clinically evident colonic metastasis from renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is rare. In the present study a hypervascular sigmoid mass was demonstrated on arterial-phase helical CT using a water enema in a patient who had suffered left nephrectomy 8 years previously for RCC. The intense and early enhancement of the lesion suggested the possibility of a solitary colonic metastasis from RCC, a diagnosis which was pathologically confirmed.