Metastatic Castrate-Resistant Prostate Cancer: A Rare Cause of Bowel Obstruction

Prostate cancer most commonly metastasizes to bone, lymph nodes, lungs, or liver, but rarely spreads to the large intestine. This case highlights a rare case of castrate-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) that spread locally to the large intestine and rectum, significant enough to cause bowel obstruct...

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Autores principales: Ehsanullah, Syed, Rashid, Syeda Zarmeena, Ehsanullah, Saiyed Abdullah A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8783652/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35103204
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20642
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author Ehsanullah, Syed
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description Prostate cancer most commonly metastasizes to bone, lymph nodes, lungs, or liver, but rarely spreads to the large intestine. This case highlights a rare case of castrate-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) that spread locally to the large intestine and rectum, significant enough to cause bowel obstruction. Metastatic prostate carcinomas are considered an infrequent cause of bowel obstruction.
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spelling pubmed-87836522022-01-30 Metastatic Castrate-Resistant Prostate Cancer: A Rare Cause of Bowel Obstruction Ehsanullah, Syed Rashid, Syeda Zarmeena Ehsanullah, Saiyed Abdullah A Cureus Internal Medicine Prostate cancer most commonly metastasizes to bone, lymph nodes, lungs, or liver, but rarely spreads to the large intestine. This case highlights a rare case of castrate-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) that spread locally to the large intestine and rectum, significant enough to cause bowel obstruction. Metastatic prostate carcinomas are considered an infrequent cause of bowel obstruction. Cureus 2021-12-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8783652/ /pubmed/35103204 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20642 Text en Copyright © 2021, Ehsanullah et al. https://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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title Metastatic Castrate-Resistant Prostate Cancer: A Rare Cause of Bowel Obstruction
title_full Metastatic Castrate-Resistant Prostate Cancer: A Rare Cause of Bowel Obstruction
title_fullStr Metastatic Castrate-Resistant Prostate Cancer: A Rare Cause of Bowel Obstruction
title_full_unstemmed Metastatic Castrate-Resistant Prostate Cancer: A Rare Cause of Bowel Obstruction
title_short Metastatic Castrate-Resistant Prostate Cancer: A Rare Cause of Bowel Obstruction
title_sort metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer: a rare cause of bowel obstruction
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8783652/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35103204
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