[Intraprostatic embolization of cholesterol crystals]
J Planas Morin1, F Aguiló Lucía, F J Suárez Novo
1Servicio de Urología, Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge, Barcelona.
Actas Urologicas Espanolas
|March 25, 2005
Abstract:
The cholesterol embolism syndrome (CES) is an unusual disease that carries a high mortality rate. Finding intraprostatic cholesterol crystal embolization as the result of transrectal prostate biopsy in a patient with several risk factors for atherosclerosis, should alert the urologist to the possibility of CES existence.
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