Triple Threat: Three Primary Malignancies Simultaneously Involving Three Genitourinary Organs.
Katharina MitchellReima El NailiLakshmikumar PillaiEric Mark LopezJohn RiordanWallis MarshAdam LucheyAli HajiranPublished in: Case reports in urology (2023)
Statistically, the chance of having concurrent renal cell carcinoma (RCC), urothelial carcinoma of the bladder (UC), and a neuroendocrine tumor (NET) of the renal parenchyma is less than one in a trillion. Herein, we describe an unusual case of a 67-year-old female who presented with bilateral flank pain and severe gross hematuria. Cross-sectional imaging revealed two large heterogeneous, endophytic renal masses with a single enlarged paracaval lymph node. Diagnostic cystoscopy was performed for completion of gross hematuria evaluation and revealed a concurrent papillary bladder tumor. Percutaneous biopsies of bilateral renal masses revealed clear cell RCC involving the left kidney and well-differentiated NET involving the right kidney, and transurethral resection of the bladder tumor revealed high-grade nonmuscle invasive urothelial carcinoma. The patient elected to undergo bilateral nephroureterectomy, radical cystectomy, and retroperitoneal and pelvic lymphadenectomy. Final pathology confirmed the presence of three different malignancies: noninvasive high-grade papillary UC of the bladder (pTaN0), left renal clear cell RCC (pT2bN0), right renal well-differentiated NET, and a single paracaval lymph nodes positive for metastatic NET (pT2aN1).
Keyphrases
- lymph node
- clear cell
- renal cell carcinoma
- high grade
- spinal cord injury
- single cell
- cross sectional
- case report
- ultrasound guided
- squamous cell carcinoma
- urinary tract
- sentinel lymph node
- small cell lung cancer
- early stage
- locally advanced
- early onset
- neuropathic pain
- pain management
- rectal cancer
- mass spectrometry
- radiation therapy
- fluorescence imaging
- muscle invasive bladder cancer