Isolated Renal Metastasis from Primary Lung Squamous Cell Carcinoma with Synchronous Small Cell Lung Cancer

Laith Numan1, Samia Asif1, Omar K Abughanimeh2

  • 1Internal Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, USA.

Cureus
|August 20, 2019
PubMed

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