Metastasis to Paranasal Sinuses from Carcinoma of Prostate: Report of a Case and Review of the Literature
Metastasis from distant primary tumors is extremely rare in the paranasal sinuses with few hundred cases in the literature. Metastatic carcinoma of the prostate is even rarer, despite being one of the most common tumors, with only 24 cases published. In this article, we report a case of a 58-year-ol...
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author | Elio Bittar Barbosa Evaldo César Macau Furtado Ferreira Fernanda Viviane Mariano Albina Messias de Almeida Milani Altemani Emerson Taro Inoue Sakuma Eulalia Sakano |
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description | Metastasis from distant primary tumors is extremely rare in the paranasal sinuses with few hundred cases in the literature. Metastatic carcinoma of the prostate is even rarer, despite being one of the most common tumors, with only 24 cases published. In this article, we report a case of a 58-year-old male presenting with epistaxis and nasal obstruction as initial symptoms of a metastatic prostate carcinoma in the ethmoid cells and maxillary sinus. |
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spelling | doaj-art-ccf9e1c388c84142be412ad8b12b12812025-02-03T06:11:25ZengWileyCase Reports in Otolaryngology2090-67652090-67732018-01-01201810.1155/2018/54289755428975Metastasis to Paranasal Sinuses from Carcinoma of Prostate: Report of a Case and Review of the LiteratureElio Bittar Barbosa0Evaldo César Macau Furtado Ferreira1Fernanda Viviane Mariano2Albina Messias de Almeida Milani Altemani3Emerson Taro Inoue Sakuma4Eulalia Sakano5Department of Ophthalmology and Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, BrazilDepartment of Ophthalmology and Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, BrazilDepartment of Pathology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, BrazilDepartment of Pathology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, BrazilDepartment of Radiology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, BrazilDepartment of Ophthalmology and Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, BrazilMetastasis from distant primary tumors is extremely rare in the paranasal sinuses with few hundred cases in the literature. Metastatic carcinoma of the prostate is even rarer, despite being one of the most common tumors, with only 24 cases published. In this article, we report a case of a 58-year-old male presenting with epistaxis and nasal obstruction as initial symptoms of a metastatic prostate carcinoma in the ethmoid cells and maxillary sinus.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/5428975 |
spellingShingle | Elio Bittar Barbosa Evaldo César Macau Furtado Ferreira Fernanda Viviane Mariano Albina Messias de Almeida Milani Altemani Emerson Taro Inoue Sakuma Eulalia Sakano Metastasis to Paranasal Sinuses from Carcinoma of Prostate: Report of a Case and Review of the Literature Case Reports in Otolaryngology |
title | Metastasis to Paranasal Sinuses from Carcinoma of Prostate: Report of a Case and Review of the Literature |
title_full | Metastasis to Paranasal Sinuses from Carcinoma of Prostate: Report of a Case and Review of the Literature |
title_fullStr | Metastasis to Paranasal Sinuses from Carcinoma of Prostate: Report of a Case and Review of the Literature |
title_full_unstemmed | Metastasis to Paranasal Sinuses from Carcinoma of Prostate: Report of a Case and Review of the Literature |
title_short | Metastasis to Paranasal Sinuses from Carcinoma of Prostate: Report of a Case and Review of the Literature |
title_sort | metastasis to paranasal sinuses from carcinoma of prostate report of a case and review of the literature |
url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/5428975 |
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