[Renal carcinoma and solitary pulmonary nodule]

Renal cell carcinoma with solitary metastasis detected at the time of diagnosis has been much discussed and its excision is considered to achieve favorable results. Herein we describe a patient with a solitary pulmonary lesion coexisting with a large renal cell carcinoma. The patient was submitted to radical surgery and the pathological analysis revealed a benign pulmonary tumor with no relationship to the renal cancer.