Abstract
Spontaneous regression of metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is a rare but well-described
clinical phenomenon; spontaneous regression of nonmetastatic RCC has been reported
far less frequently. We present three cases of primary RCC that regressed spontaneously
following the image-guided biopsy that established their diagnosis. We briefly review
the literature describing spontaneous regression of both primary and metastatic RCC
and emphasize how knowledge of this phenomenon may be useful for abdominal imagers
that perform renal biopsy or interpret postbiopsy follow-up studies.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: October 15, 2014
Accepted:
August 30,
2014
Received:
August 10,
2014
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