A CASE OF MULTILOCULAR CYSTIC RENAL CELL CARCINOMA TREATED BY PARTIAL NEPHRECTOMY ASSOCIATED WITH ADRENAL TUMOR

A case of multilocular cystic renal cell carcinoma was reported. The patient was 69-year-old male who had been examined for postoperative study of gastric cancer by abdominal CT. The abdominal CT incidentally revealed right adrenal tumor which was non-functional and multilocular cysts in the lower pole of the right kidney. Selective renal arteriography showed a hypovascular mass with fine neovascularity. These two findings of CT and arteriography were though to represent a probable malignant tumor but renal function of the patient decreased moderately. Surgical exploration was done and right renal masses were thought to be seen benign multilocular cysts without capsule. Simple excision of the wall of cysts and right adrenalectomy were performed. Pathological examinations showed multilocular cystic renal cell carcinoma and benign adrenal hyperplasia. Additionally partial nephrectomy was done. Surgical margin of the kidney was tumor free and postoperative course was uneventful. Prognosis of multiocular cystic renal cell carcinoma is good, therefore conservative surgery is recommended.