Severe Acute Kidney Injury Due to Intraglomerular Melanoma: A Case Report
Metastatic disease in the kidney is relatively uncommon compared to other body sites. In most cases it presents as a unilateral and unifocal mass in the tubulointerstitial region. Intraglomerular metastases are even rarer, and their diagnosis is hampered by the limitations of imaging techniques in detecting them. We describe the finding of intraglomerular metastases in a patient affected by a malignant melanoma considered to be in partial remission, with no evidence of melanoma progression on the previously performed computed tomography scan.