Unilateral ovarian metastasis from renal clear cell carcinoma

Ovarian metastases of renal origin are rarely reported in the literature and pose a diagnostic problem because they are usually diagnosed at a distance from the primary cancer.

We report a case of unilateral ovarian metastasis from clear cell renal cell carcinoma fifteen years after nephrectomy in a fifty-six-year-old patient who underwent surgery for an abdominopelvic mass.

The diagnosis of ovarian metastases can be made at the same time as the diagnosis of the primary cancer or at a distance from it, with an interval ranging from a few months to years later. In the case of our patient, the ovarian metastasis was diagnosed fifteen years after the nephrectomy.

Ovarian metastases are exceptional secondary localizations of renal cancer, they can be unilateral or bilateral, and are usually discovered several years after the renal tumor.