Extensive bilateral renal metastases of non-small cell lung carcinoma caused acute kidney injury resulting in end-stage renal disease.

Non-small cell lung carcinoma unusually causes clinically relevant metastases in the kidney while they are usually found only in autopsy. Acute kidney injury (AKI) due to direct metastatic invasion of a solid tumor is also very rare whereas it usually happens with hematologic malignancy, including lymphoma. We report a case with these two rarities.