Synchronous stomach and renal cell carcinoma: A case report

Abstract

Sixty five years old man presented with epigastrium pain unrelated to eating and weight-loss. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy revealed an ulcerovegetan mass lying from gastric fundus to antrum, abdominal computerized tomograpy showed polypoid solid mass in the gastric lumen and a heterogenous mass in the right kidney. Endoscopic biopsy specimen indicated adenocarcinoma. The patient had taken to surgery and a mass in the stomach penetrated serosa, invased to pancreas at posterior and porta hepatis was found with perigastric lymph nodes. There was no invasion in perigastric soft tissue and lymph nodes. The pathologic diagnosis of renal mass was renal cell carcinoma, cytokeratin and vimentin positive. The patient's performance status was poor, paliative treatment was given. He died at seventh month of diagnosis.