A Rare Case of Synovial Sarcoma of the Prostate Causing Urinary Retention

Synovial sarcomas of the prostate are exceedingly rare malignant tumors. Only a few cases have been reported so far. We discuss a case of a 52-year-old male who presented with signs and symptoms of benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) and was diagnosed with synovial sarcoma of the prostate. Since this...

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Autores principales: Ehsanullah, Syed, Rashid, Syeda Zarmeena, Haq, Adeel, Ehsanullah, Saiyed Abdullah A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8825446/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35155022
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21057
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author Ehsanullah, Syed
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description Synovial sarcomas of the prostate are exceedingly rare malignant tumors. Only a few cases have been reported so far. We discuss a case of a 52-year-old male who presented with signs and symptoms of benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) and was diagnosed with synovial sarcoma of the prostate. Since this sarcoma is rare, it can easily be misdiagnosed with BPH or adenocarcinoma of the prostate.
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spelling pubmed-88254462022-02-11 A Rare Case of Synovial Sarcoma of the Prostate Causing Urinary Retention Ehsanullah, Syed Rashid, Syeda Zarmeena Haq, Adeel Ehsanullah, Saiyed Abdullah A Cureus Internal Medicine Synovial sarcomas of the prostate are exceedingly rare malignant tumors. Only a few cases have been reported so far. We discuss a case of a 52-year-old male who presented with signs and symptoms of benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) and was diagnosed with synovial sarcoma of the prostate. Since this sarcoma is rare, it can easily be misdiagnosed with BPH or adenocarcinoma of the prostate. Cureus 2022-01-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8825446/ /pubmed/35155022 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21057 Text en Copyright © 2022, 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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Ehsanullah, Syed
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A Rare Case of Synovial Sarcoma of the Prostate Causing Urinary Retention
title A Rare Case of Synovial Sarcoma of the Prostate Causing Urinary Retention
title_full A Rare Case of Synovial Sarcoma of the Prostate Causing Urinary Retention
title_fullStr A Rare Case of Synovial Sarcoma of the Prostate Causing Urinary Retention
title_full_unstemmed A Rare Case of Synovial Sarcoma of the Prostate Causing Urinary Retention
title_short A Rare Case of Synovial Sarcoma of the Prostate Causing Urinary Retention
title_sort rare case of synovial sarcoma of the prostate causing urinary retention
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8825446/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35155022
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21057
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