Dural metastases from disseminated prostate cancer clinically mimicking a benign reactive condition of the dura: case report and review of the literature.
Dural spread from prostate cancer (PC) is exceedingly uncommon. We report on a 62-year-old man suffering from disseminated PC with osseous metastases who presented with a parietal skull metastasis along with a circumscribed nodular thickening of the adjacent dura. Magnetic resonance imaging findings suggested a benign reactive condition of the dura which, however, histologically turned out to be a dural metastasis. Therefore, the present case report stresses the notion that very rarely, disseminated PC might present with clinically unsuspected dural metastases radiologically mimicking a benign condition.
Department of Pathology, HELIOS Clinic Bad Saarow, Bad Saarow, Germany. sven.gunia @ helios-kliniken.de
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D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004388:Dura Mater / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000556:secondary; D008578:Meninges / Q000473:pathology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D016896:Treatment Outcome