Cargando…
Total Osseous Calcification of the Prostate Gland
Prostatic calculi are commonly seen in older men as their incidence increases with age. They are associated with prostate hypertrophy, chronic inflammation of the gland, prostate cancer, and rarely with other pathological conditions such as granulomatous diseases. Although typical small in size, the...
Autores principales: | , , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Cureus
2020
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7430685/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32821585 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9239 |
_version_ | 1783571469244039168 |
---|---|
author | Kapogiannis, Filipos Fasoulakis, Konstantinos Fragkoulis, Charalampos Aggelopoulos, Angelos Fasoulakis, Charalampos |
author_facet | Kapogiannis, Filipos Fasoulakis, Konstantinos Fragkoulis, Charalampos Aggelopoulos, Angelos Fasoulakis, Charalampos |
author_sort | Kapogiannis, Filipos |
collection | PubMed |
description | Prostatic calculi are commonly seen in older men as their incidence increases with age. They are associated with prostate hypertrophy, chronic inflammation of the gland, prostate cancer, and rarely with other pathological conditions such as granulomatous diseases. Although typical small in size, they can seldom become giant and replace the entire prostate gland with only few cases reported in literature. We present one such rare case of a young male who presented to the emergency department with clinical manifestations of sepsis and no relevant past medical history. The patient was ultimately treated with open simple retropubic prostatectomy as a surgical stone extraction method. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-7430685 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2020 |
publisher | Cureus |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-74306852020-08-18 Total Osseous Calcification of the Prostate Gland Kapogiannis, Filipos Fasoulakis, Konstantinos Fragkoulis, Charalampos Aggelopoulos, Angelos Fasoulakis, Charalampos Cureus Emergency Medicine Prostatic calculi are commonly seen in older men as their incidence increases with age. They are associated with prostate hypertrophy, chronic inflammation of the gland, prostate cancer, and rarely with other pathological conditions such as granulomatous diseases. Although typical small in size, they can seldom become giant and replace the entire prostate gland with only few cases reported in literature. We present one such rare case of a young male who presented to the emergency department with clinical manifestations of sepsis and no relevant past medical history. The patient was ultimately treated with open simple retropubic prostatectomy as a surgical stone extraction method. Cureus 2020-07-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7430685/ /pubmed/32821585 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9239 Text en Copyright © 2020, Kapogiannis et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Emergency Medicine Kapogiannis, Filipos Fasoulakis, Konstantinos Fragkoulis, Charalampos Aggelopoulos, Angelos Fasoulakis, Charalampos Total Osseous Calcification of the Prostate Gland |
title | Total Osseous Calcification of the Prostate Gland |
title_full | Total Osseous Calcification of the Prostate Gland |
title_fullStr | Total Osseous Calcification of the Prostate Gland |
title_full_unstemmed | Total Osseous Calcification of the Prostate Gland |
title_short | Total Osseous Calcification of the Prostate Gland |
title_sort | total osseous calcification of the prostate gland |
topic | Emergency Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7430685/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32821585 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9239 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT kapogiannisfilipos totalosseouscalcificationoftheprostategland AT fasoulakiskonstantinos totalosseouscalcificationoftheprostategland AT fragkoulischaralampos totalosseouscalcificationoftheprostategland AT aggelopoulosangelos totalosseouscalcificationoftheprostategland AT fasoulakischaralampos totalosseouscalcificationoftheprostategland |