Premium
Brain Metastasis from Prostate Cancer: A Case Report
Author(s) -
Zhang Xianghua,
Tsukuda Fumio,
Yamamoto Norihito,
Takenaka Ikumasa
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
international journal of urology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.172
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1442-2042
pISSN - 0919-8172
DOI - 10.1111/j.1442-2042.1997.tb00297.x
Subject(s) - medicine , prostate cancer , brain metastasis , metastasis , prostate , cancer , pathology , oncology
Brain metastases from prostate cancer are rare in postmortem examinations, and even rarer in clinical series. We report an unusual case of brain metastasis from prostate cancer confirmed by antemortem diagnosis in a 72‐year‐old man. The metastatic brain tumor was surgically resected and the patient was kept stable for more than 19 months after diagnosis of the brain metastasis.