Epididymal Metastasis from Carcinoma of the Prostate

Epididymal Metastasis from a primary carcinoma of the prostate gland is a rare but recognised phenomena. We describe a case of such metastasis which, unlike previous reports, presents as a painful epididymal mass. Therefore it is important for urologists to consider epididymal metastasis as part of...

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Autores principales: Heman-Ackah, C., Urol, Dip, Fox, A. T., El-Jabbour, J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: TheScientificWorldJOURNAL 2004
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5956471/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15349541
http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2004.61
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author Heman-Ackah, C.
Urol, Dip
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description Epididymal Metastasis from a primary carcinoma of the prostate gland is a rare but recognised phenomena. We describe a case of such metastasis which, unlike previous reports, presents as a painful epididymal mass. Therefore it is important for urologists to consider epididymal metastasis as part of the differential diagnosis in a patient with known carcinoma of the prostate and a tender epididymal mass.
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spelling pubmed-59564712018-06-03 Epididymal Metastasis from Carcinoma of the Prostate Heman-Ackah, C. Urol, Dip Fox, A. T. El-Jabbour, J. ScientificWorldJournal Case Report Epididymal Metastasis from a primary carcinoma of the prostate gland is a rare but recognised phenomena. We describe a case of such metastasis which, unlike previous reports, presents as a painful epididymal mass. Therefore it is important for urologists to consider epididymal metastasis as part of the differential diagnosis in a patient with known carcinoma of the prostate and a tender epididymal mass. TheScientificWorldJOURNAL 2004-06-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5956471/ /pubmed/15349541 http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2004.61 Text en Copyright © 2004 C. Heman-Ackah et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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