Bone marrow metastases from prostatic cancer-marked cytolytic effect after only a few days of treatment with diethylstilbestrol.
A 42-year-old male patient became hospitalized with severe back pain and marked bleeding tendency from disseminated intravascular coagulation. The bone marrow aspirate showed numerous nests of cancer cells presumably from a prostatic carcinoma. After only 4 days of treatment with diethylstilbestrol his condition was markedly improved, and a new bone marrow aspirate showed extensive necrosis of the cancer cells.
D000328:Adult; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000473:pathology; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology; D004054:Diethylstilbestrol / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy*; D013997:Time Factors
D004054:Diethylstilbestrol