Renal cell carcinoma is a relatively rare tumor, accounting for approximately 3 percent of adult malignancies. Bilateral renal cell carcinoma, synchronous or asynchronous, very rarely occurs and makes another urological dilemma.
We experienced a case of unrecognized bilateral renal cell carcinoma ; which had been treated by radical nephrectomy after diagnosed as a left renal cell carcinoma, Robson stage IIIa, about 18 months later another mass was found in remaining
kidney.
Therefore, we performed wedge resection of the mass, and it was also diagnosed as a real cell carcinoma. Reviewing of the initial abdomen-pelvis CT scan, mass in Rt. kidney had already been existed when left. renal cell carcinoma was diagnosed.
This
case was finally diagnosed with unrecognized bilateral synchronous renal cell carcinoma.
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