Prostate Cancer Metastatic to the Cervical Lymph Nodes
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Prostate Cancer Metastatic to the Cervical Lymph Nodes
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men, often presenting with regional lymph node or bone metastasis and rarely with supradiaphragmatic lymph node involvement. Most metastatic cancers involving the cervical lymph nodes are from cancers of the upper aerodigestive tract. In this report, we describe two cases with cervical lymph node enlargement due to metastatic prostate cancer as the i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports in Urology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2090-696X,2090-6978
DOI: 10.1155/2015/263978