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Misdiagnosis of Small Cell Prostate Cancer: Lessons Learned

dc.contributor.authorFindakly, Dawood
dc.contributor.authorWang, Jue
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-07T22:24:10Z
dc.date.available2020-12-07T22:24:10Z
dc.date.issued2020-05-29
dc.identifier.citationFindakly, D., & Wang, J. (2020). Misdiagnosis of Small Cell Prostate Cancer: Lessons Learned. Cureus, 12(5).en_US
dc.identifier.issn2168-8184
dc.identifier.pmid32494549
dc.identifier.doi10.7759/cureus.8356
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10150/649249
dc.description.abstractSmall cell carcinoma (SCC) of the prostate is rare in the spectrum of prostate tumors. Clinically, prostate SCC is more aggressive and has a poorer prognosis when compared to prostate acinar adenocarcinoma. Delay in diagnosis and misdiagnosis further worsens the outcome of this disease. Here we present a 68-year-old man whose prostate SCC was initially misdiagnosed with benign prostate hypertrophy (BPH) by his primary care physician (PCP) and urologist and small cell lung cancer by his first oncologist and pathologist. This case underscores the diagnostic conundrum of prostate SCC and the importance of exercising caution against the possibility of uncommon prostate cancer misdiagnosis in clinical practice.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCUREUS INCen_US
dc.rightsCopyright © 2020, Findakly et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 4.0.en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.subjectsmall cell carcinoma of the prostateen_US
dc.subjectdiagnostic erroren_US
dc.subjectmisdiagnosisen_US
dc.subjectdelayed diagnosisen_US
dc.subjectsurgical pathologyen_US
dc.titleMisdiagnosis of Small Cell Prostate Cancer: Lessons Learneden_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.contributor.departmentUniv Arizona, Ctr Canc, Dign Hlthen_US
dc.identifier.journalCUREUSen_US
dc.description.noteOpen access journalen_US
dc.description.collectioninformationThis item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu.en_US
dc.eprint.versionFinal published versionen_US
dc.source.journaltitleCureus
dc.source.volume12
dc.source.issue5
dc.source.beginpagee8356
dc.source.endpage
refterms.dateFOA2020-12-07T22:24:11Z
dc.source.countryUnited States


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Copyright © 2020, Findakly et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 4.0.
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