Tubulocystic renal cell carcinoma is a rare subtype of renal tumor according to the 2016 World Health Organization, and less than 100 cases have been documented up to date in literature. The imaging features are not well known and to the best of our knowledge, there is not a radiology description of recurrence from tubulocystic renal cell carcinoma in the literature. We describe the case of a 70-year-old man with unusual cystic lesions in the left hypochondrium 11 years after a nephrectomy for tubulocystic renal cell carcinoma on the same side, and we report a review of the clinical characteristics of metastatic tubulocystic renal cell carcinoma.
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