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Analyses of Proteinuria, Renal Infiltration of Leukocytes, and Renal Deposition of Proteins in Lupus-prone MRL/lpr Mice
Published on: June 8, 2022
[Assymptomatic prostatic infiltration by chronic lymphocytic leukemia]
Teresa Pastor Navarro1, Jorge Planelles Gómez, Manel Beamud Cortés
1Servicio de Urología, Hospital Universitario Doctor Peset, Valencia, España. tpastorn@yahoo.es
Objective:
Report of a case of leukemic infiltration of the prostate as an incidental CT finding.
Methods:
We describe a case of a 60-year-old male suffering from chronic lymphocytic leukemia. A routine-performed CT showed multiple lymphadenopathies and an hypodense area in the left prostatic lobe. The patient was sent to our department to carry out a transrectal ultrasound and prostatic biopsy. He didn't relate any urinary symptoms.
Results:
By the prostate rectal examination the gland felt hard and with no well defined limits. The transrectal ultrasound showed heterogene parenchyma and several hyperechoic areas by a bad circumscribed prostate. The pathological analysis reported a diffuse infiltration of the gland by chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells.
Conclusions:
Although the relapse of hematological tumors to the prostate has been described previously, there is no published case to our knowledge of a leukemic prostate infiltration in an assymptomatic patient as an incidental finding by an imaging procedure.
