TY - JOUR
T1 - Cytogenomics and gene expression in a case of metachronous bilateral renal cell carcinomas with drop metastasis
T2 - Resolving a diagnostic dilemma with molecular technologies
AU - Takei, Hidehiro
AU - Barrios, Roberto
AU - Monzon, Federico A.
PY - 2013/6
Y1 - 2013/6
N2 - Metachronous bilateral renal cell carcinomas (RCCs) are rare but well known. We present a case of metachronous bilateral RCCs with a ureter orifice metastasis, for which the pathological diagnosis was confirmed with single nucleotide polymorphism microarray (SNP-M) and gene expression assay (GEA). A 53-year-old man presented with a right ureteral obstruction. A cystoscopy showed a large pedunculated tumor emanating from the right ureteral orifice, consistent with a drop metastasis, which was biopsied. He had a history of a clear cell RCC (ccRCC) 1.5 years prior and a right renal pelvic mass found 8 months later. Histologically, the biopsied right ureteral tumor demonstrated sheets of poorly differentiated cancer cells composed of a mixture of spindled and focal clear cell components. The main differential diagnosis was metastatic RCC versus urothelial carcinoma, but the immunohistochemical profile was not contributory. SNP-M revealed a genomic profile consistent with a metastatic ccRCC with loss of chromosome 3p. GEA showed a gene expression pattern consistent with kidney origin. The cytogenomic array also identified chromosome copy number patterns that were shared between both kidney tumors. This finding suggests that both tumors had a common origin, and thus, the metachronous ccRCC in the contralateral kidney represents a metastasis.
AB - Metachronous bilateral renal cell carcinomas (RCCs) are rare but well known. We present a case of metachronous bilateral RCCs with a ureter orifice metastasis, for which the pathological diagnosis was confirmed with single nucleotide polymorphism microarray (SNP-M) and gene expression assay (GEA). A 53-year-old man presented with a right ureteral obstruction. A cystoscopy showed a large pedunculated tumor emanating from the right ureteral orifice, consistent with a drop metastasis, which was biopsied. He had a history of a clear cell RCC (ccRCC) 1.5 years prior and a right renal pelvic mass found 8 months later. Histologically, the biopsied right ureteral tumor demonstrated sheets of poorly differentiated cancer cells composed of a mixture of spindled and focal clear cell components. The main differential diagnosis was metastatic RCC versus urothelial carcinoma, but the immunohistochemical profile was not contributory. SNP-M revealed a genomic profile consistent with a metastatic ccRCC with loss of chromosome 3p. GEA showed a gene expression pattern consistent with kidney origin. The cytogenomic array also identified chromosome copy number patterns that were shared between both kidney tumors. This finding suggests that both tumors had a common origin, and thus, the metachronous ccRCC in the contralateral kidney represents a metastasis.
KW - Bilateral metachronous renal cell carcinoma
KW - Clear cell carcinoma
KW - Cytogenomic array
KW - Gene expression assay
KW - Immunohistochemistry
KW - Metastasis
KW - SNP microarray
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U2 - 10.1111/pin.12068
DO - 10.1111/pin.12068
M3 - Article
C2 - 23782335
AN - SCOPUS:84879441633
VL - 63
SP - 326
EP - 332
JO - Pathology International
JF - Pathology International
SN - 1320-5463
IS - 6
ER -