title: Impact of low prostate specific antigen on prostate cancer--a rare case report.
abstract: This article presents a rare case of a common disease, prostate cancer. A 57 year-old patient undergoing annual check-up for prostate cancer presents with a prostate specific antigen (PSA) level as low as 0.64 ng/ml. This patient was revealed to suffer from prostate cancer pT2c pNx pMx. This article assesses the implications of low prostate specific antigen for prostate cancer and discusses the controversial viewpoints as to the cutpoint of prostate specific antigen reviewing recent literature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany. hbschneider@medizin.uni-leipzig.de
authors.forename: H B
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Schneider
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D001706:Biopsy; D051517:Digital Rectal Examination; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017430:Prostate-Specific Antigen / Q000097:blood*; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000097:blood* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D012016:Reference Values
chemical_list: D017430:Prostate-Specific Antigen