Metastasis of carcinoma of prostate to meningioma.
A carcinoma of the prostate in a 75-year-old patient metastasized to a clinically unknown meningioma. The metastatic deposit produced a sudden enlargement of the meningioma leading to pressure on the brain-stem and consequently causing a rapid fatal course of the disease.
D000368:Aged; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008579:Meningioma / Q000473:pathology*; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*