A case report of prostate adenocarcinoma with leptomeningeal carcinomatosis and intracerebral metastasis

A case report of prostate adenocarcinoma with leptomeningeal carcinomatosis and intracerebral metastasis

Despite the fact that prostate cancer is the most prevalent cancer in men, metastases to the central nervous system including leptomeningeal involvement by prostate carcinoma is a rare event. The prognosis of metastatic prostate cancer is very poor due to lack of CNS penetrating therapeutic agents....

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Veröffentlicht in:Clinical case reports 2021-10, Vol.9 (10), p.e05000-n/a
Hauptverfasser: Fazilat‐Panah, Danial, Ahmadi, Nahid, Moslemi, Dariush, Karimi, Masoumeh, Taji, Alireza, Dehghani, Mansoureh, Emadi Torghabeh, Ali, Keshtpour Amlashi, Zahra, Saghafi, Mohammadreza, Fatemi, Maedeh Alsadat
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Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Cancer therapies
Case Report
Case reports
Chemotherapy
CNS metastasis
Consent
leptomeningeal carcinomatosis
Magnetic resonance imaging
Metastasis
Nervous system
Paralysis
Patients
Prostate cancer
Quality of life
Radiation therapy
Scintigraphy
Tumors
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Zusammenfassung:Despite the fact that prostate cancer is the most prevalent cancer in men, metastases to the central nervous system including leptomeningeal involvement by prostate carcinoma is a rare event. The prognosis of metastatic prostate cancer is very poor due to lack of CNS penetrating therapeutic agents. Despite the fact that prostate cancer is the most prevalent cancer in men, metastases to the central nervous system including leptomeningeal involvement by prostate carcinoma are a rare event. The prognosis of metastatic prostate cancer is very poor due to lack of CNS penetrating therapeutic agents.
ISSN:2050-0904
2050-0904
DOI:10.1002/ccr3.5000