acute appendicitis due to metastasis of prostatic carcinoma

ACUTE APPENDICITIS DUE TO METASTASIS OF PROSTATIC CARCINOMA

A 70 year old male presented with right lower quadrant pain and anorexia for about 72 hours prior to hospital admission. He underwent laparotomy with impression of acute appendicitis. The operative finding was an inflamed tumoral appendix without appendicular base involvement, and appendectomy was done. The patient had an uneventful post-op course. Due to the pathology report of prostatic ...

Acute Appendicitis Due to Metastasis of Prostatic Adenocarcinoma: A Case Report

Acute appendicitis due to metastasis of prostatic carcinoma is very rare, and only five cases of metastasis of prostatic carcinoma are described in the literature. We report the case of a 73-year-old man with a history of an adenocarcinoma of the prostate with multiple bone metastases. The patient was admitted to the emergency department with symptoms and signs of an acute appendicitis which wa...

Cutaneous metastasis in prostatic carcinoma.

Sir, Almost all prostate cancers are adenocarcinoma. The age-specific mortality and absolute number of deaths from prostate cancer have been decreasing since 1993.[1] There is an almost 8:1 ratio in the incidence of prostate-specific mortality. The disease locally invades along the nerve sheath and metastasizes through lymphatic chains or blood vessels.[2] Distant metastases are common when lym...

Black Esophagus due to Metastasis Colonic Carcinoma

Gurvits syndrome is rare but a unique syndrome presenting with acute esophageal necrosis or the black esophagus and is found in critical settings associated with diabetes mellitus, malignancy, gastroesophageal reflux disease or terminally ill patients. The overall mortality rate is reported to be 31.8% in the literature related to underlying medical conditions but death due to esophageal necros...

Undescended epididymo-testicular metastasis from prostatic carcinoma.

Thoracic empyema due to bacterial translocation in acute appendicitis.

Appendicitis and thoracic empyema are rarely presented together. Herein, we present a thoracic empyema due to bacterial translocation in a patient, after she underwent appendicectomy for nonperforated acute appendicitis. Postoperative third day, thoracic empyema was revealed clinically and radiologically. Tube thoracostomy and antibiotherapy were performed. Despite all these therapy, her sympto...