Brain metastasis as a sole recurrence of prostate cancer after total prostatectomy.
Brain metastasis from prostate cancer is a rare clinical event. We present a case of prostate cancer with a solitary brain metastasis as a sole site of recurrence after total prostatectomy. To our knowledge, this is the third reported case of an isolated brain metastasis from prostate cancer.
Hayashi
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Department of Urology, Nissan Kouseikai Tamagawa Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Igarashi
K
K
Tanizawa
A
A
Terada
Y
Y
Sekine
H
H
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D003399:Craniotomy; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D017430:Prostate-Specific Antigen / Q000097:blood; D011468:Prostatectomy; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000097:blood / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D017430:Prostate-Specific Antigen