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A Pedunculated Skin Lesion In A Case Of Clear Cell Renal Carcinoma, Meghana Kesireddy, Amit Correa, Raoul Correa, Rohit Venkatesan
A Pedunculated Skin Lesion In A Case Of Clear Cell Renal Carcinoma, Meghana Kesireddy, Amit Correa, Raoul Correa, Rohit Venkatesan
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Clear cell type renal carcinoma accounts for about 80% of all renal cell carcinomas. We present a 39-year-old male with clear cell renal carcinoma of the right kidney, stage I: T1 b (5 cm) N0 M0, who developed cutaneous metastases in the right submandibular region 28 months after nephrectomy. Our case is unique as i) the patient with stage I cancer (at the time of nephrectomy) presented with an isolated cutaneous nodule in a location distant from the primary site; ii) cutaneous nodule developed while being treated with pazopanib for metastatic lesions in the lung and adrenal; and iii) nivolumab …