Appendicitis: A rare case caused by metastatic prostate cancer

Acute appendicitis is the most common surgical emergency in the United States. However, unusual causes of appendicitis need to be considered in patients with significant co-morbidities like our patient with history of prostate cancer. Cases of acute appendicitis due to metastatic prostate cancer are...

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Autores principales: Khan, Khuram, Rodriguez, Ricardo, Landa, Marina, Davis-Joseph, Brian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Oncology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6037662/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29992093
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2018.07.007
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author Khan, Khuram
Rodriguez, Ricardo
Landa, Marina
Davis-Joseph, Brian
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description Acute appendicitis is the most common surgical emergency in the United States. However, unusual causes of appendicitis need to be considered in patients with significant co-morbidities like our patient with history of prostate cancer. Cases of acute appendicitis due to metastatic prostate cancer are rare, with only a few cases reported in the literature. We report a case of a 72 year old male with a history of metastatic prostate cancer that caused acute appendicitis prompting surgical intervention.
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spelling pubmed-60376622018-07-10 Appendicitis: A rare case caused by metastatic prostate cancer Khan, Khuram Rodriguez, Ricardo Landa, Marina Davis-Joseph, Brian Urol Case Rep Oncology Acute appendicitis is the most common surgical emergency in the United States. However, unusual causes of appendicitis need to be considered in patients with significant co-morbidities like our patient with history of prostate cancer. Cases of acute appendicitis due to metastatic prostate cancer are rare, with only a few cases reported in the literature. We report a case of a 72 year old male with a history of metastatic prostate cancer that caused acute appendicitis prompting surgical intervention. Elsevier 2018-07-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6037662/ /pubmed/29992093 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2018.07.007 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
spellingShingle Oncology
Khan, Khuram
Rodriguez, Ricardo
Landa, Marina
Davis-Joseph, Brian
Appendicitis: A rare case caused by metastatic prostate cancer
title Appendicitis: A rare case caused by metastatic prostate cancer
title_full Appendicitis: A rare case caused by metastatic prostate cancer
title_fullStr Appendicitis: A rare case caused by metastatic prostate cancer
title_full_unstemmed Appendicitis: A rare case caused by metastatic prostate cancer
title_short Appendicitis: A rare case caused by metastatic prostate cancer
title_sort appendicitis: a rare case caused by metastatic prostate cancer
topic Oncology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6037662/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29992093
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2018.07.007
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