The case is A 63-year-old man. He visited our emergency outpatient clinic for headache and dizziness in 201X. CT examination was performed, and a diagnosis of left renal cell carcinoma, brain metastasis, multiple lung metastasis, and mediastinal lymph node metastasis was confirmed.He was treated in the urology department.He was referred to our department because of Progression of anemia during treatment for 201X+5 years.
Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) revealed a submucosal tumor, mainly immediately below the gastric cardia, and a biopsy was performed. Renal cell carcinoma was confirmed by histology, and the patient was diagnosed with gastric metastasis of renal cell carcinoma. Transcatheter arterial embolization (TAE) was performed to prevent rebleeding, and the follow-up EGD showed apparently tumor shrinkage. We report a case in which TAE was performed for gastric metastasis of renal cell carcinoma.
