| Literature DB >> 22842384 |
Hamid Shaaban1, David Thomas, Gunwant Guron.
Abstract
Ductal adenocarcinoma of the prostate is a rare malignancy and it accounts for less than 1% of prostatic adenocarcinomas as a predominant pattern. In general, the prognosis for these patients is worse than those with typical adenocarcinoma of the prostate. SIADH is a rare paraneoplastic syndrome associated with classic and poorly differentiated acinar prostate adenocarcinoma. To our knowledge, this is the first case of paraneoplastic SIADH associated with ductal type prostate adenocarcinoma. The case highlights once again that the patients with metastatic prostate cancer who present with hyponatremia should get a diagnostic workup for SIADH done due to the potential fatal consequences of this paraneoplastic syndrome.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22842384 DOI: 10.4103/0973-1482.98999
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Cancer Res Ther ISSN: 1998-4138 Impact factor: 1.805