Case Vignettes

Osteosclerotic prostatic metastasis

Pooja Dhaon^1*, Siddharth Das¹

Author Affiliations

¹Department of Rheumatology, King George Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Correspondence: Dr. Pooja Dhaon

IJRCI. 2015;3(1):V6

Received: 8 October 2015, Accepted: 10 December 2015, Published: 14 December 2015

Rheumatic syndromes associated with cancer may represent metastasis or paraneoplastic phenomenon, which occur at a distance from the primary tumor mediated by hormones, peptides, and antibodies. The course of these symptoms remains parallel to the primary tumor and they improve with treatment of the primary tumor. The Fig.1 and 2 represent radiographs of the pelvis and knees showing multiple osteosclerotic lesions characteristic for prostate cancer, noted in a forty-year-old male patient. These radiologic findings were supported by high prostatic-specific antigen (150 µg/l) and axillary lymph node biopsy, which were suggestive of metastatic adenocarcinoma.

Fig. 1 and 2: The radiographs of the pelvis and knees showing multiple osteosclerotic lesions

Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.