A Clinical Observation of Renal Cell Carcinoma / 대한비뇨기과학회지

ABSTRACT

Follow-up study was made on l0 patients of renal cell carcinoma who were treated at Seoul Paik Hospital since 1982. among the l0 cases, male was 9 cases and female was l case. Average patient age was 55.3 years, with a range of 45 to 67 years. Except one, all of the patients had hematuria either gross or microscopic, but the classic triad of hematuria, flank pain and abdominal mass was present in 3 patients. In 2 cases of the 5 cases who were not examined by C-T scan revealed renal tumor and concurred with pathologic finding. At initial diagnosis, distant metastasis was present in 30% of the patients and 1 patient had subcutaneous lesion and the solitary lesion of the lung. Mean survival time of stage IV renal cell carcinoma was 16 months in this report.