Nemoto Kaoru, Tomita Yuji
Department of Urology, National Hakodate Hospital, Hakodate, Japan.
Scand J Urol Nephrol. 2007;41(6):558-60. doi: 10.1080/00365590701365404.
A 74-year-old male was treated with endocrine therapy for localized prostate cancer. After 25 months he complained of a swollen neck, and was diagnosed with prostate cancer with lymph node metastasis of neuroendocrine differentiation. Neuroendocrine differentiation without elevation of conventional tumor markers is rare during the initial recurrent course of localized prostate cancer.
一名74岁男性因局限性前列腺癌接受内分泌治疗。25个月后,他抱怨颈部肿胀,被诊断为伴有神经内分泌分化淋巴结转移的前列腺癌。在局限性前列腺癌的初始复发过程中,神经内分泌分化而传统肿瘤标志物不升高的情况很少见。