Angiographic Work-Up in a Patient with Late Vaginal Metastasis from a Renal Carcinoma

Abstract

Vaginal metastasis from a renal cell carcinoma appeared 23 years after the primary surgery in a 64-year-old female. At angiographic work-up local recurrence in the renal fossa and liver metastasis were demonstrated. These findings indicated radiation treatment instead of radical surgery of the vaginal metastasis, which primarily was thought to be solitary. Angiography and/or computorized tomography (CT) of the retroperitoneal space and the liver should be performed in patients with late and presumed solitary metastasis from a renal cell carcinoma before radical surgery of the metastasis is attempted.