A 70-year-old male having advanced prostate cancer presenting with hypercalcemia and diffuse osteoblastic bone metastases: a case report

BACKGROUND: Bony metastases were occasionally the initial presentations of malignancy. Overlooking of bony changes on radiographs in cancer patients with non-specific clinical symptoms may lead to delayed diagnosis. CASE PRESENTATION: We presented a 70-year-old male having hypercalcemia and diffuse...

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Autores principales: Liao, Wan-Hsiu, Lin, Sheng-Hsiang, Wu, Tsu-Tuan
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2629461/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19144185
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-54
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author Liao, Wan-Hsiu
Lin, Sheng-Hsiang
Wu, Tsu-Tuan
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Lin, Sheng-Hsiang
Wu, Tsu-Tuan
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description BACKGROUND: Bony metastases were occasionally the initial presentations of malignancy. Overlooking of bony changes on radiographs in cancer patients with non-specific clinical symptoms may lead to delayed diagnosis. CASE PRESENTATION: We presented a 70-year-old male having hypercalcemia and diffuse osteoblastic bone metastases on routine plain films. Finally, prostate cancer was diagnosed with a prostate needle biopsy. CONCLUSION: Although the modern radionuclide bone scanning is useful in diagnosis, osteoblastic bone changes are occasionally seen in plain films, which are frequently overlooked. To avoid delayed diagnosis, bony structures should be carefully examined in all plain-film radiographs.
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spelling pubmed-26294612009-01-22 A 70-year-old male having advanced prostate cancer presenting with hypercalcemia and diffuse osteoblastic bone metastases: a case report Liao, Wan-Hsiu Lin, Sheng-Hsiang Wu, Tsu-Tuan Cases J Case Report BACKGROUND: Bony metastases were occasionally the initial presentations of malignancy. Overlooking of bony changes on radiographs in cancer patients with non-specific clinical symptoms may lead to delayed diagnosis. CASE PRESENTATION: We presented a 70-year-old male having hypercalcemia and diffuse osteoblastic bone metastases on routine plain films. Finally, prostate cancer was diagnosed with a prostate needle biopsy. CONCLUSION: Although the modern radionuclide bone scanning is useful in diagnosis, osteoblastic bone changes are occasionally seen in plain films, which are frequently overlooked. To avoid delayed diagnosis, bony structures should be carefully examined in all plain-film radiographs. BioMed Central 2009-01-14 /pmc/articles/PMC2629461/ /pubmed/19144185 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-54 Text en Copyright ©2009 Liao et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Liao, Wan-Hsiu
Lin, Sheng-Hsiang
Wu, Tsu-Tuan
A 70-year-old male having advanced prostate cancer presenting with hypercalcemia and diffuse osteoblastic bone metastases: a case report
title A 70-year-old male having advanced prostate cancer presenting with hypercalcemia and diffuse osteoblastic bone metastases: a case report
title_full A 70-year-old male having advanced prostate cancer presenting with hypercalcemia and diffuse osteoblastic bone metastases: a case report
title_fullStr A 70-year-old male having advanced prostate cancer presenting with hypercalcemia and diffuse osteoblastic bone metastases: a case report
title_full_unstemmed A 70-year-old male having advanced prostate cancer presenting with hypercalcemia and diffuse osteoblastic bone metastases: a case report
title_short A 70-year-old male having advanced prostate cancer presenting with hypercalcemia and diffuse osteoblastic bone metastases: a case report
title_sort 70-year-old male having advanced prostate cancer presenting with hypercalcemia and diffuse osteoblastic bone metastases: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2629461/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19144185
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-54
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