Solitary Renal Metastasis Arising from a Pulmonary Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Table 1

Summary of primary lung ACC cases with renal metastases.

Ref no	Demographics	Treatment of primary tumor	Time interval to renal metastasis (years)	Symptoms at presentation	Metastatic tumor location/size (cm)	Management of renal tumor	Oncological outcome
[16]	47 yo male	Right pneumonectomy	23 years	Hematuria	Left kidney/9.0 cm	Radical nephrectomy	No recurrence after 12 months
[17]	79 yo male	Not done	3 years	Hematuria and right flank pain	Right kidney/4.4 cm + multiple left renal lesions	Chemotherapy	Patient died 30 months after diagnosis
[18]	50 yo male	Right lower lobectomy	7 years	Flank pain	Right kidney/9.3 cm	Radical nephrectomy (cytoreductive)	Not reported
[19]	70 yo male	Right upper lobectomy + radiotherapy	3 years	Cough, fever, weight loss	Lower and upper pole of right kidney/1.8 cm	Radical nephrectomy	No recurrence after 24 months
This case	57 yo female	Right lower lobectomy	7 years	Asymptomatic	Lower pole of left kidney/3.3 cm	Partial nephrectomy	No recurrence after 24 months