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Brain stem metastasis as the only site of spread in prostate carcinoma. A case report
Author(s) -
Gupta Anu,
Baidas Said,
Cumberlin Richard K.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(19941101)74:9<2516::aid-cncr2820740920>3.0.co;2-c
Subject(s) - medicine , brain metastasis , metastasis , prostate , incidence (geometry) , adenocarcinoma , prostate carcinoma , carcinoma , pathology , oncology , cancer , physics , optics
Metastasis to the brain from prostate carcinoma is a rare event, having been reported in less than 5% of postmortem examinations. The incidence of cases detected antemortem is even smaller, and the incidence of brain metastasis as the only site of metastasis has been reported in only one other case. The authors present a second such case of a patient with a Stage C adenocarcinoma of the prostate that metastasized to the brain stem; this was the only site of spread.