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Copyright © 2015 Luis Sepúlveda et al. Luis Sepúlveda et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men, often presenting with regional lymph node or bone metastasis and rarely with supradiaphragmatic lymph node involvement. Most metastatic cancers involving the cervical lymph nodes are from cancers of the upper aerodigestive tract. In this report, we describe two cases with cervical lymph node enlargement due to metastatic prostate cancer as the initial clinical presentation: a 43-year-old male, initially misdiagnosed with a tumor of the upper aerodigestive tract and an 87-year-old male with right lobe pneumonia and cervical lymph node enlargement, initially attributed to be an acute inflammatory lymph node reaction. To the best of our knowledge, there are less than 50 cases reported in the literature of adenocarcinoma of prostate metastatic to the cervical lymph nodes and only one case presenting in men younger than 45 years. The authors intend to highlight the importance of digital rectal exam and PSA test in case of persistent left cervical lymph node enlargement, including men younger than 45 years of age.

Details

Title
Prostate Cancer Metastatic to the Cervical Lymph Nodes
Author
Sepúlveda, Luis; Gorgal, Tiago; Pires, Vanessa; Rodrigues, Filipe
Publication year
2015
Publication date
2015
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
ISSN
2090696X
e-ISSN
20906978
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
1663499144
Copyright
Copyright © 2015 Luis Sepúlveda et al. Luis Sepúlveda et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.