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Dionese, Michele; Basso, Umberto; Ramondo, Gaetano; Pierantoni, Francesco; Bimbatti, Davide; Caumo, Francesca; Zagonel, Vittorina; Maruzzo, Marco
Clinical Medicine Insights. Oncology, 06/2021, Letnik: 15Journal Article
The role of percutaneous tumour biopsies had gain importance in the management of renal cell carcinoma to provide diagnostic specimen for the patients with metastatic disease that could benefit a systemic treatment. Among the possible complications of this procedure, however, there is the risk of tumoral cells seeding along the biopsy’s tract; this complication, albeit being reported as anecdotal, could have devastating effects. Here we report a case of a young male who developed subcutaneous chest metastasis of renal cell carcinoma after a biopsy of a lung nodule. We subsequently reviewed other cases reported in literature
