title: Metastatic prostate cancer mimicking chronic subdural hematoma: a case report and review of the literature.
abstract: Cancer of the prostate is extremely common and is well known to metastasize to the pelvic lymph nodes and axial skeleton (vertebral column, pelvis, cranium, and proximal femur). However, reports of intracranial metastasis are rare and commonly discovered postmortem. Moreover, metastatic lesions mimicking subdural hematoma are extremely rare and are uncommonly reported in the literature. We found only three such cases in the literature. We present a unique case of metastatic prostate cancer presenting with headaches after head trauma with classic radiologic findings of subdural hematoma. The diagnosis may have been made sooner with preoperative magnetic resonance imaging.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, USA.
authors.forename: Shashikant
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Patil
authors.forename: Ayme
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Veron
authors.forename: Pegah
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hosseini
authors.forename: Rachel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bates
authors.forename: Benjamin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: Bharat
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Guthikonda
authors.forename: Rowena
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: DeSouza
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000556:secondary*; D000368:Aged; D020200:Hematoma, Subdural, Chronic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D013355:Subdural Space; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed