Clinical and pathological features of metastatic adenocarcinoma of the prostate to the ileum

Thorsten H Ecke; Stefan Koch; Jürgen Ruttloff; Steffen Hallmann

doi:10.5173/ceju.2014.04.art8

Clinical and pathological features of metastatic adenocarcinoma of the prostate to the ileum

Cent European J Urol. 2014;67(4):357-60. doi: 10.5173/ceju.2014.04.art8. Epub 2014 Dec 5.

Authors

Thorsten H Ecke¹, Stefan Koch², Jürgen Ruttloff¹, Steffen Hallmann¹

Affiliations

¹ HELIOS Hospital, Department of Urology, Bad Saarow, Germany.
² HELIOS Hospital, Institute of Pathology, Bad Saarow, Germany.

Abstract

We present a case of a 74-year-old white male with a history of prostate cancer with unusual metastasis to the ileum, and with ileus as a very unusual first symptom of prostate cancer. This patient presented to us with histologically confirmed metastasis of the ileum after resection in the Department of Surgery.

Keywords: ileum; metastatsis; prostate cancer.

Publication types

Case Reports