[Colon adenocarcinoma and synchronous type 1 papillary renal cell carcinoma: a unique association].

The detection of primary tumors synchronous with colorectal cancer has been the subject of multiple publications. This association can occur sporadically or fall under the framework of well defined clinical syndromes such as Lynch syndrome. Synchronous association of colorectal cancer (CRC) and renal cell carcinoma is rare. It is even more rare when renal cell carcinoma is of papillary origin, with only 2 cases reported in the literature. The association between CRC and renal cell carcinoma does not seem to be related to mismatch repair proteins (MMR) abnormality and does not include, up to now, any clinical syndrome. We report the case of a 69-year old woman with colorectal cancer associated with synchronous type 1 papillary renal cell carcinoma unexpectedly detected during screening for CRC. We here discuss the pathogenesis as well as the prognosis of this rarely described entity.