Asian Journal of Research and Reports in Urology

Lumbar Vertebra Collapse- First Manifestation of Renal Cell Carcinoma: A Case Report

Pachauri Avtar *

Department of Urology, Govt. Medical College, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.

S. Vasudevan

Department of Urology, Govt. Medical College, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.

Kumar Nitish

Department of Urology, Govt. Medical College, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.

*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

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Abstract

Renal cell carcinoma is the most common urological malignancy having aggressive and unpredictable metastatic potential. In the available literature, a number of cases of isolated metastasis to the spine from renal cell carcinoma have been described, but there is a dearth of literature regarding a case in which symptoms from the metastasis of a renal cell carcinoma preceded the detection of the primary tumor. We present a unique case of our knowledge in which a young patient presents with lumbar vertebra collapse for which he was managed and subsequently diagnosed with renal clear cell carcinoma with spinal metastasis.

Keywords: Renal cell carcinoma, spinal metastasis, vertebra collapse

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