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Unusual presentation of more common disease/injury
Tumour-to-tumour metastases: prostate carcinoma metastasising to a renal oncocytoma
  1. Gemma Petts1,
  2. Tina Rashid2,
  3. David Hrouda2,
  4. Nye-Thane Ngo1
  1. 1Department of Cellular Pathology, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
  2. 2Department of Urology, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
  1. Correspondence to Nye-Thane Ngo, n.ngo{at}imperial.ac.uk

Summary

This is a case report of prostate carcinoma metastasising to a renal oncocytoma. The report demonstrates the unusual presentation of metastases from a common cancer to a common benign tumour, and reviews the rare phenomenon of tumour-to-tumour metastases.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2012-007366

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