Penile metastasis of prostatic adenocarcinoma: Report of two cases and review of literature

BACKGROUND: Carcinoma of the prostate metastasising to the penis is rare. These patients have a poor prognosis receiving various treatment modalities. CASE PRESENTATION: Two such patients are discussed here having received differing therapeutic regimes, pointing out the necessity for standardised pa...

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Autores principales: Philip, Joe, Mathew, Joseph
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2003
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC212152/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14521716
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-1-16
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description BACKGROUND: Carcinoma of the prostate metastasising to the penis is rare. These patients have a poor prognosis receiving various treatment modalities. CASE PRESENTATION: Two such patients are discussed here having received differing therapeutic regimes, pointing out the necessity for standardised palliative treatment rather than radical therapy. CONCLUSION: Management of patients with penile metastases from carcinoma of the prostate should emphasise improving quality of life with palliative treatment rather than radical therapy
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spelling pubmed-2121522003-10-11 Penile metastasis of prostatic adenocarcinoma: Report of two cases and review of literature Philip, Joe Mathew, Joseph World J Surg Oncol Case Report BACKGROUND: Carcinoma of the prostate metastasising to the penis is rare. These patients have a poor prognosis receiving various treatment modalities. CASE PRESENTATION: Two such patients are discussed here having received differing therapeutic regimes, pointing out the necessity for standardised palliative treatment rather than radical therapy. CONCLUSION: Management of patients with penile metastases from carcinoma of the prostate should emphasise improving quality of life with palliative treatment rather than radical therapy BioMed Central 2003-09-14 /pmc/articles/PMC212152/ /pubmed/14521716 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-1-16 Text en Copyright © 2003 Philip and Mathew; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the article's original URL.
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title Penile metastasis of prostatic adenocarcinoma: Report of two cases and review of literature
title_full Penile metastasis of prostatic adenocarcinoma: Report of two cases and review of literature
title_fullStr Penile metastasis of prostatic adenocarcinoma: Report of two cases and review of literature
title_full_unstemmed Penile metastasis of prostatic adenocarcinoma: Report of two cases and review of literature
title_short Penile metastasis of prostatic adenocarcinoma: Report of two cases and review of literature
title_sort penile metastasis of prostatic adenocarcinoma: report of two cases and review of literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC212152/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14521716
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-1-16
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