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Multiple metastases of prostatic adenocarcinoma to the urethra after radical prostatectomy
Constantinos Constantinides1, Konstantinos Haritopoulos, Ioannis Anastasiou
11st Department of Urology, Athens University Medical School, Laiko Hospital, Athens, Greece.
Urologia Internationalis
|July 14, 2007
Abstract:
We present a rare case of multiple metastases of a prostatic adenocarcinoma to the urethra. Radical prostatectomy had been performed 13 years before, and during this time he had been frequently treated with transurethral resections of the bladder neck for obstructive urinary symptoms.
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