Metastasis from prostatic carcinoma causing acute appendicitis: Report of a case

Ozyazici, Sefa; Karateke, Faruk; Menekse, Ebru; Daş, Koray; Demırtürk, Pelin; Özdoğan, Mehmet

doi:10.1016/j.ijscr.2013.01.011

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“…Tumor causing appendicitis are reported to be 0.9%–1%. 1 , 2 Tumor metastasis to the appendix could be potentially from ovary, liver, kidney, breast, lung, pancreas, stomach and like our case, from prostate. 3 Prostate cancer primarily metastasize to the lymph nodes, bone and lungs.…”

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Appendicitis: A rare case caused by metastatic prostate cancer

Khan

Rodríguez

Landa

et al. 2018

Urology Case Reports

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Acute appendicitis is the most common surgical emergency in the United States. However, unusual causes of appendicitis need to be considered in patients with significant co-morbidities like our patient with history of prostate cancer. Cases of acute appendicitis due to metastatic prostate cancer are rare, with only a few cases reported in the literature. We report a case of a 72 year old male with a history of metastatic prostate cancer that caused acute appendicitis prompting surgical intervention.

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“…Metastasis to the appendix from the time of initial diagnosis of prostate cancer is reported to be 5 years, in contrast our patient presented 10 years later. 2 …”

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Appendicitis: A rare case caused by metastatic prostate cancer

Khan

Rodríguez

Landa

et al. 2018

Urology Case Reports

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“…Metastasis to the appendix usually originates in carcinomas of the gastrointestinal tract, breast, lung or female genital tract. Only five cases of appendicular metastasis of prostate cancer are described in the literature [5][6][7][8][9].…”

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“…In other case reports [5][6][7][8][9], the appendix did not show any visible suspicious lesions and therefore only an appendectomy was performed. In spite of this, our case report is the first to visualize the metastasis during the operation and perform an ileocecal resection on acute appendicitis to metastatic carcinoma of the prostate.…”

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Acute Appendicitis Due to Metastasis of Prostatic Adenocarcinoma: A Case Report

Moussaoui¹,

Diamand²,

Dika³

et al. 2015

J Curr Surg

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Acute appendicitis due to metastasis of prostatic carcinoma is very rare, and only five cases of metastasis of prostatic carcinoma are described in the literature. We report the case of a 73-year-old man with a history of an adenocarcinoma of the prostate with multiple bone metastases. The patient was admitted to the emergency department with symptoms and signs of an acute appendicitis which was confirmed by computed tomography (CT). Laparoscopic surgical exploration was performed, affirming an acute appendicitis with a suspicious lesion in the appendix base. Due to the location of the lesion, an ileocecectomy was performed. Histopathological and immunohistochemical examinations of the specimen showed an extrinsic infiltration of the appendix by adenocarcinoma metastasis expressing the prostate-specific antigen (PSA). These results confirmed an acute appendicitis caused by metastasis of prostatic adenocarcinoma.

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“…Because there were no specific symptoms or findings of metastatic appendiceal lesions 4) , it is difficult to make a precise preoperative diagnosis. The growth of the tumor is likely to lead to obstruction of the appendiceal lumen, therefore, the rate of perforation in metastasis induced acute appendicitis is higher than that of simple acute appendicitis 5) . It was reported the appendiceal wall was perforated by the tumor in 55% of 316 patients with appendiceal adenocarcinoma 13) .…”

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Metastasis of Breast Cancer to the Appendix Causing Acute Appendicitis

Iwamoto

Suzuki

Tsukada

et al. 2014

Juntendo Medical Journal

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We herein present the case of a-58-year-old female with a metastasis of breast cancer to the appendix, which caused acute appendicitis. She had undergone a bilateral partial mastectomy with sentinel lymph node biopsy ten years earlier at another hospital. She had subsequently received radiation therapy, chemotherapy and endocrine therapy. There had been no sign of recurrence for five years after the surgical procedure. She was admitted to our hospital because of abdominal pain lately. Abdominal computed tomography showed a dilated and thickened wall of the appendix. She was diagnosed with acute appendicitis and underwent appendectomy. A histopathological examination revealed metastatic breast cancer of the appendix, and the patient received endocrine therapy using an aromatase inhibitor. Metastatic involvement of the appendix should be suspected in any patient with a previous history of breast cancer presenting with acute appendicitis, even if many years have passed after initial therapy.

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Metastasis from prostatic carcinoma causing acute appendicitis: Report of a case

Abstract: Metastasis induced acute appendicitis should be considered as part of the differential diagnosis when a oncologic patient presents with signs of acute appendicitis.

Cited by 15 publications

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Appendicitis: A rare case caused by metastatic prostate cancer

Appendicitis: A rare case caused by metastatic prostate cancer

Acute Appendicitis Due to Metastasis of Prostatic Adenocarcinoma: A Case Report

Metastasis of Breast Cancer to the Appendix Causing Acute Appendicitis

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