Carcinosarcoma of the Prostate Masquerading as Benign Prostatic Enlargement: Lesson Learned

Primary carcinosarcoma of the prostate is an extremely rare and aggressive malignancy. We report a patient who presented with obstructive symptoms and without a history of radiation, prior adenocarcinoma, or androgen deprivation therapy. Transurethral resection of the prostate was performed. Histopa...

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Autores principales: Selvaraj, Nivash, Ragavan, Narasimhan, Shah, Saloni Naresh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8317776/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34337484
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.euros.2020.11.006
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description Primary carcinosarcoma of the prostate is an extremely rare and aggressive malignancy. We report a patient who presented with obstructive symptoms and without a history of radiation, prior adenocarcinoma, or androgen deprivation therapy. Transurethral resection of the prostate was performed. Histopathology and immunohistochemistry revealed a confirmatory diagnosis of de novo carcinosarcoma of the prostate. The case is described for its rarity and masquerading nature.
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spelling pubmed-83177762021-07-29 Carcinosarcoma of the Prostate Masquerading as Benign Prostatic Enlargement: Lesson Learned Selvaraj, Nivash Ragavan, Narasimhan Shah, Saloni Naresh Eur Urol Open Sci Case Report Primary carcinosarcoma of the prostate is an extremely rare and aggressive malignancy. We report a patient who presented with obstructive symptoms and without a history of radiation, prior adenocarcinoma, or androgen deprivation therapy. Transurethral resection of the prostate was performed. Histopathology and immunohistochemistry revealed a confirmatory diagnosis of de novo carcinosarcoma of the prostate. The case is described for its rarity and masquerading nature. Elsevier 2020-11-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8317776/ /pubmed/34337484 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.euros.2020.11.006 Text en © 2020 The Authors https://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/).
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title Carcinosarcoma of the Prostate Masquerading as Benign Prostatic Enlargement: Lesson Learned
title_full Carcinosarcoma of the Prostate Masquerading as Benign Prostatic Enlargement: Lesson Learned
title_fullStr Carcinosarcoma of the Prostate Masquerading as Benign Prostatic Enlargement: Lesson Learned
title_full_unstemmed Carcinosarcoma of the Prostate Masquerading as Benign Prostatic Enlargement: Lesson Learned
title_short Carcinosarcoma of the Prostate Masquerading as Benign Prostatic Enlargement: Lesson Learned
title_sort carcinosarcoma of the prostate masquerading as benign prostatic enlargement: lesson learned
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8317776/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34337484
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.euros.2020.11.006
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