Occult prostate adenocarcinoma with pulmonary metastasis: diagnosis by fine needle aspiration biopsy of the lung and immunohistochemistry.
Metastatic pulmonary nodules were found in a 70-year-old man, who also had osteoblastic bone lesions and symptoms of prostatism. Extensive searching, including a transurethral resection of the prostate, failed to establish the primary site of the malignancy. One of the pulmonary nodules was biopsied using a fine needle aspiration technique, and revealed adenocarcinoma. The tumor cells in this lesion stained positive for prostate specific antigen. The patient was treated with estrogen for prostatic carcinoma and improved.
Chen
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Tseng
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Hwang
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D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000556:secondary; D000368:Aged; D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm / Q000032:analysis*; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology*; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary*; D008297:Male; D017430:Prostate-Specific Antigen; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*
D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm; D017430:Prostate-Specific Antigen