Case Report

Palliation of Malignant Rectal Obstruction from Invasive Prostate Cancer with Multiple Overlapping Self-Expanding Metal Stents

Abstract:Self-expandable metal stents (SEMS) are used for colonic neoplastic and extracolonic metastatic obstruction relief. Limited data exists on their use for locally invasive prostate cancer. We describe a unique approach using overlapping SEMS to alleviate a rectosigmoid obstruction from locally invasive prostate cancer. A patient with locally advanced prostate cancer…

Posted in: obstruction 2 prostate 2

Case Report

Four Primary Tumors of Lung, Bladder, Prostate, and Breast in a Male Patient

We present a very rare case of quadruple cancers in a 65-year-old male patient. It is a case of both synchronous and metachronous primary malignant neoplasms occurring in four different organs. Immunohistochemical stains showed tumor cell nuclei to be negative for p53 over-expression. To our knowledge, this is the first…

Posted in: breast 7 lung 7 prostate 2
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