Renal Cell Carcinoma with Duodenal Metastasis: A Rare Presentation

Abstract

Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is a notorious malignancy with variable metastatic sites and clinical patterns. Even the bowel is not spared and around 7% cases metastasize to small intestine [1]. The involvement of duodenum is a rare phenomenon and only nineteen cases have been reported in literature till date [2,3]. It is fairly expected that duodenal metastasis occurs in presence of widespread visceral and nodal metastases along with disease elsewhere in the body [2]. Solitary duodenal metastasis is presumed to be rare [4]. However, if we look at all the 19 reported cases, 12 had solitary duodenal lesion and seven patients was involved of other organs as well [2,3]. We hereby report a case that had duodenal metastasis one year after being diagnosed and treated for renal cell carcinoma.