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Metastasis of prostate adenocarcinoma to the frontal and ethmoid sinus
Fatih Akdemir1, Mustafa Aldemir2, Hasan Çakar3
1Department of Urology, Samsun Terme State Hospital, Samsun, Turkey.
Abstract:
Intracranial metastasis of prostate cancer is rarely seen, and there are few studies in this regard in the literature. Most of these studies in the literature comprise the metastasis of prostate cancer to the sphenoid sinus, and metastasis to the frontal and ethmoid sinus is a much rare entity. Association of visual symptoms, epistaxis, headache, and hematuria may indicate a urologic malignancy in terms of the origin of the primary tumor. This study was aimed to present the prostate cancer case of a 73-year-old patient whose paranasal sinus tomograms revealed the presence of frontal and ethmoid sinus metastasis.
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