Sarcomatoid carcinoma of prostate involving the whole lower urinary tract and rectum

Sarcomatoid carcinoma of prostate is an extremely rare but aggressive neoplasm. It is generally associated with a poor prognosis. About 100 cases have so far been reported in the English literature. We report the case of a 64-year-old male with a very rapidly progressive disease that ultimately invo...

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Autores principales: Nazim, Syed M., Jalbani, Imran K., Abbas, Farhat, Minhas, Khurram
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3835990/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24311912
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-7796.120311
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description Sarcomatoid carcinoma of prostate is an extremely rare but aggressive neoplasm. It is generally associated with a poor prognosis. About 100 cases have so far been reported in the English literature. We report the case of a 64-year-old male with a very rapidly progressive disease that ultimately involved the whole lower urinary tract and rectum. The management of this case along with etio-pathogenesis and literature review is discussed.
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spelling pubmed-38359902013-12-05 Sarcomatoid carcinoma of prostate involving the whole lower urinary tract and rectum Nazim, Syed M. Jalbani, Imran K. Abbas, Farhat Minhas, Khurram Urol Ann Case Report Sarcomatoid carcinoma of prostate is an extremely rare but aggressive neoplasm. It is generally associated with a poor prognosis. About 100 cases have so far been reported in the English literature. We report the case of a 64-year-old male with a very rapidly progressive disease that ultimately involved the whole lower urinary tract and rectum. The management of this case along with etio-pathogenesis and literature review is discussed. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3835990/ /pubmed/24311912 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-7796.120311 Text en Copyright: © Urology Annals http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Sarcomatoid carcinoma of prostate involving the whole lower urinary tract and rectum
title Sarcomatoid carcinoma of prostate involving the whole lower urinary tract and rectum
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title_short Sarcomatoid carcinoma of prostate involving the whole lower urinary tract and rectum
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3835990/
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