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Reminder of important clinical lesson
CASE REPORT
Renal cell carcinoma with sarcomatoid transformation, presenting as skin rashes
  1. Nitin Shrivastava,
  2. Brusabhanu Nayak,
  3. Prabhjot Singh
  1. Urology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
  1. Correspondence to Dr Brusabhanu Nayak, brusabhanu{at}gmail.com

Summary

A 68-year-old man presented to our outpatient department, with chief complaints of rashes all over the body. On physical examination, purpuric rashes were present over all four limbs and a lump was palpable in right flank. Contrast-enhanced CT scan showed enhancing large right renal mass. He underwent right radical nephrectomy, and histopathological analysis showed features of renal cell carcinoma. Skin lesions disappeared after surgery.

  • urological cancer
  • vasculitis

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2017-223338

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors All authors have substantial contribution in the writing of this case report. NS: drafting the article. BN: concept, design and analysis of data. PS: editing and data acquisition.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

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    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.