Penile metastases of rectal adenocarcinoma after abdominoperineal resection: a case report

BACKGROUND: Penile metastases are very rare and arise most frequently from genitourinary cancers. Penile metastases from rectal adenocarcinoma are less common. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 47-year-old North Afican man with penile metastases from a rectal adenocarcinoma, which was disco...

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Autores principales: Marghich, Omar, Dkhissi, Yassine, Alila, Mohammed, El Bouhaddouti, Hicham
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6661075/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31351481
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-019-2147-z
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: Penile metastases are very rare and arise most frequently from genitourinary cancers. Penile metastases from rectal adenocarcinoma are less common. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 47-year-old North Afican man with penile metastases from a rectal adenocarcinoma, which was discovered 4 months after abdominoperineal resection. A penile biopsy was carried out and established the metastatic nature. He underwent palliative chemotherapy treatment. He was still alive 4 months after diagnosis of penile metastases. CONCLUSION: The prognosis of metastasis to the penis is very poor; the best results have been achieved with surgery but only for lesions where metastasis is limited to the penis.

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