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Prostatic Adenosquamous Carcinoma Metastasizing to Testis
Author(s) -
Dilek Ertoy Baydar,
Kemal Kösemehmetoğlu,
Bülent Akdoğan,
Haluk Özen
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
the scientific world journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.453
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 2356-6140
pISSN - 1537-744X
DOI - 10.1100/tsw.2006.388
Subject(s) - adenosquamous carcinoma , adenocarcinoma , orchiectomy , metastasis , medicine , prostate carcinoma , carcinoma , prostate , pathology , oncology , cancer
Adenosquamous carcinoma of the prostate is an unusual tumor with poor prognosis. Most arise after hormonal or radiotherapy of conventional prostatic adenocarcinoma. Sarcomatous transformation in them has been reported in only a few cases. Here, we present a unique case of "de novo prostatic adenosquamous carcinoma with focal sarcomatoid areas" that showed testicular metastasis, detected after scrotal orchiectomy.

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