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Rare skeletal muscle metastasis from renal cell carcinoma: case report and review of the literature

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Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is a tumor that usually metastasizes to lung, liver, bone and brain, but rarely to skeletal muscles. We report a case of an elderly man with a history of bilateral metachronous RCC for which he underwent curative bilateral nephrectomies and renal transplantation, was in remission, and presented with a large solitary skeletal muscle metastasis from the initial RCC, 3 years later.

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  1. Diagnostic Radiology Department, American University of Beirut Medical Center, P.O. Box 11-0236, Riad El-Solh, Beirut, 1107 2020, Lebanon

    Rida Salman, Mikhael G. Sebaaly, Karl Asmar & Nabil J. Khoury

  2. Division of Orthopedic Surgery, Department of Surgery, American University of Beirut Medical Center, P.O. Box 11-0236, Riad El-Solh, Beirut, 1107 2020, Lebanon

    Mohammad Nasserdine

  3. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, P.O. Box 11-0236, Riad El-Solh, Beirut, 1107 2020, Lebanon

    Sami Bannoura

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Salman, R., Sebaaly, M.G., Asmar, K. et al. Rare skeletal muscle metastasis from renal cell carcinoma: case report and review of the literature. CEN Case Rep 7, 316–319 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13730-018-0350-1

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