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Metastatic spindle-cell renal carcinoma presenting as multiple intestinal polyps

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Diseases of the Colon & Rectum

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A 75-year-old woman presented with rapidly progressive intestinal and general symptoms including diarrhea, melena, weight loss, back pain, and lassitude. Endoscopy revealed multiple intestinal polyps which, microscopically, consisted of metastatic tumor deposits composed predominantly of spindle-shaped tumor cells. The primary tumor, a mixed spindle-cell and clear-cell carcinoma, was later identified in the kidney at autopsy. The patient had a cholecystectomy 13 years previously.

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  1. Department of Histopathology, Charing Cross Hospital, Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, Fulham Palace Road, W6 8RF, London, England

    Sami Shousha M.R.C.Path. & Peter A. Smith M.R.C.Path.

  2. Gastrointestinal Unit, Charing Cross Hospital, Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, Fulham Palace Road, W6 8RF, London, England

    R. Anthony Parkins F.R.C.P.

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Shousha, S., Smith, P.A. & Parkins, R.A. Metastatic spindle-cell renal carcinoma presenting as multiple intestinal polyps. Dis Colon Rectum 29, 750–751 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02555326

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