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Recurrent renal cell carcinoma after 45 years
H Tapper1, H Klein, W Rubenstein
1Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Cornell University Medical Center, New York Hospital, New York 10021, USA.
Clinical Imaging
|July 1, 1997
Abstract:
Late recurrence of renal cell carcinoma (RCC), arbitrarily defined as > 10 years post nephrectomy, is rare. The longest known clinical disease-free interval of 36 years was reported by Walter and Gellespie in 1960. We report a case of recurrent RCC presenting 45 years after nephrectomy.