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[Prostate Carcinoma Mimics Lung Carcinoma: A Case Report]
Konstantinos Drosos1, Klaus Höfner1
1Klinik für Urologie, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Oberhausen, Oberhausen.
Aktuelle Urologie
|January 13, 2017
Summary
This case report details a rare instance of prostate adenocarcinoma that was negative for prostate-specific antigen (PSA). The tumor expressed thyroid transcription factor-1 (TTF-1), complicating diagnosis in a patient with a prior lung cancer history.
Area of Science:
- Oncology
- Pathology
- Urologic Oncology
Background:
- Prostate adenocarcinoma typically expresses prostate-specific antigen (PSA).
- Thyroid transcription factor-1 (TTF-1) expression is unusual in prostate cancer and more characteristic of lung adenocarcinoma.
- A history of lung adenocarcinoma can complicate the differential diagnosis of newly discovered tumors in the genitourinary tract.
