[Metastases of prostatic cancer].

Among 600 necropsy cases of prostatic carcinoma metastases were found in 425 (70,8%). Solitary metastasis was found in 11 cases only, in the rest multiple metastases were observed. The most frequent site of metastases were lymph nodes (42,7%), bone (29,6%), liver (19,8%), lungs (14,5%), pleura (9,2%). Bone metastases were most frequently osteoplastic, localized mainly in the vertebral column (19,7% of all carcinomas), pelvic bones (8,5%), ribs (8,5%). In 4 out of 118 cases of metastases to the vertebral column, a pathologic fracture was observed, this being much rarer than in metastases of a clear-cell carcinoma of the kidney (11,1%) when metastases are generally osteolytic.