[Intracranial metastasis in prostatic cancer].
The intracranial metastasis due to prostatic adenocarcinoma are quite rare, inside them, the ones placed in the parasellar region on the cranial base are exceptional. There are only 3 clinical cases found in the literature consulted, now we report here two more cases and we review the etiopathogenia, clinic presentation, diagnosis and treatment for this type of lesions. Usually there are very undifferentiated neoplasms, developed stages and with multiple metastasis at others levels. A patient with prostatic carcinoma known and neurological signs we should suspect the presence of intracranial metastasis. The diagnosis is made with image tests (basically with CT and MRI), being necessary in some cases the histological confirmation with a biopsy. Although the prognostic of these patients (less than 6 months in our cases) depends more of the evolutive stage of the illness than the type of treatment that the patients will be someated, we should establish it rapidly, on this way we can revert the neurological status and we will improve the quality of life of these patients.
Pieras Ayala
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Servicio de Urología, IUNA, Fundació Puigvert, Hospital de Sta. Cruz y S. Pablo, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.
Rosales Bordes
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López Llauradó
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Villavicencio Mavrich
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Vicente Rodríguez
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J
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000556:secondary*; D000368:Aged; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*