A case report of renal cell carcinoma with initial symptom of multiple subcutaneous nodules / 中华泌尿外科杂志

Cutaneous metastasis of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is rare. Particularly, it is even more rare that multiple subcutaneous nodules become the first symptom of RCC. On January 19, 2018, a RCC patient with first symptom of multiple subcutaneous nodules was admitted to Wuxi No.2 People’s Hospital. The patient's right renal cancer stage was cT 4N 2M 1, stage Ⅳ. He has no surgical indication and medical treatment was the main strategy. Sunitinib was administered orally five days after the biopsy. He died of multiple brain metastases seven months after the operation. The overall survival was 7 months.