CASE 766: RENAL CLEAR CELL CARCINOMA, Dr PHAN THANH HẢI, Dr PHẠM THẾ ANH, MEDIC MEDICAL CENTER, HCMC, VIETNAM.

 A 60 year-old woman with a cystic renal tumor on the left side which was detected by ultrasound.

MSCT confirmed the left renal tumor at the lower pole of the left kidney.

An ultrasound-guided renal biopsy was conducted at Medic Center.

Result of  renal biopsy was a renal clear cell carcinoma. And a surgery for the left renal tumor was done one week later the diagnostic was made.

The risk of seeding of tumor cell  in renal biopsy is very rare before removing the renal tumor by surgery.