Metastasis to Paranasal Sinuses from Carcinoma of Prostate: Report of a Case and Review of the Literature

Metastasis from distant primary tumors is extremely rare in the paranasal sinuses with few hundred cases in the literature. Metastatic carcinoma of the prostate is even rarer, despite being one of the most common tumors, with only 24 cases published. In this article, we report a case of a 58-year-ol...

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Autores principales: Barbosa, Elio Bittar, Ferreira, Evaldo César Macau Furtado, Mariano, Fernanda Viviane, Altemani, Albina Messias de Almeida Milani, Sakuma, Emerson Taro Inoue, Sakano, Eulalia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5889891/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29770233
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/5428975
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Sumario:Metastasis from distant primary tumors is extremely rare in the paranasal sinuses with few hundred cases in the literature. Metastatic carcinoma of the prostate is even rarer, despite being one of the most common tumors, with only 24 cases published. In this article, we report a case of a 58-year-old male presenting with epistaxis and nasal obstruction as initial symptoms of a metastatic prostate carcinoma in the ethmoid cells and maxillary sinus.

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