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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...

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Autores principales: Kapogiannis, Filipos, Fasoulakis, Konstantinos, Fragkoulis, Charalampos, Aggelopoulos, Angelos, Fasoulakis, Charalampos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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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
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author Kapogiannis, Filipos
Fasoulakis, Konstantinos
Fragkoulis, Charalampos
Aggelopoulos, Angelos
Fasoulakis, Charalampos
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Fasoulakis, Konstantinos
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Aggelopoulos, Angelos
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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.
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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.
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Kapogiannis, Filipos
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