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- Title
Skin metastasis, an uncommon course of prostate carcinoma: a report of two cases.
- Authors
TELIS, Leon; WOLF, Vira; Oksana YASKIV; PEARSON, Barry J.; KATSIGEORGIS, Maria; JAZAYERI, Seyed Behzad; SAMADI, David B.; UNGER, Pamela D.
- Abstract
Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers among men worldwide and in the USA. Most prostate cancer progression either locally invades to seminal vesicles or metastasizes distally to bone. Skin is not a common site of metastasis for the majority of malignancies including prostate cancer. This paper reports two extremely rare cases of prostate carcinoma metastatic to the skin: a 74-year-old man previously treated with radiation for prostate cancer with cutaneous metastases to the shoulder and a 68-year-old man with prostate adenocarcinoma and cutaneous metastases to the groin. Both patients were diagnosed with skin punch biopsy and later confirmed with immunohistochemical staining for PSA and prostate specific acid phosphatase, specific for prostatic carcinoma. Although unusual, development of multiple skin lesions in patients with prostate adenocarcinoma should raise the flags of cutaneous metastases.
- Subjects
METASTASIS; PROSTATE; CARCINOMA; DIAGNOSIS; PROSTATE cancer; PROSTATE cancer prognosis; ADENOCARCINOMA; CANCER patients
- Publication
Malaysian Journal of Pathology, 2016, Vol 38, Issue 2, p165
- ISSN
0126-8635
- Publication type
Article