Renal Pelvis and Renal Calices Sarcomatoid Carcinoma: A Case Report

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Qiliang Yin Shijie Lan Fengming Jiang Di Wu

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Di Wu
Tumor Center of JiLin University No.1 Hospital, Changchun, China

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Introduction: Sarcomatoid carcinoma is one of the malignant neoplasms characterized by the ability to differentiate into both epithelial tissue and mesenchymal tissue. And it is rare in urinary system with a high degree of malignancy and prognosis is poor. Patient Concerns: The present article reports a 63-year-old man presented with recurrent left flank pain for two years. Radiological tests suggested a space-occupying lesion in left kidney with enlarged paranephric /retroperitoneal lymph nodes. Diagnosis: The pathological diagnosis following left nephrectomy indicated renal pelvis and renal calices sarcomatoid carcinoma; pTNM: T4N0M0. Interventions: No radiotherapy or chemotherapy were performed after the surgery and underwent rapid growth. Outcomes: The patients died six months later. Conclusion: Renal pelvis and renal calices sarcomatoid carcinomas is a highly malignant tumor and difficult to diagnose at its early stage. Definite diagnosis relies on the combination of immunohistochemistry (IHC) and morphological analyses and there currently is no effective treatment.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Fri 18, Sep 2020
Accepted: Thu 01, Oct 2020
Published: Wed 07, Oct 2020

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© 2023 Di Wu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.JSO.2020.05.01