RECTAL INVOLVEMENT BY PROSTATE CARCINOMA
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Invasive carcinoma of prostate presenting as rectal carcinoma.
Prostate carcinoma occasionally can present with rectal obstructive symptoms and an annular constricting lesion of the rectum. Discriminating between primary rectal carcinoma and prostate carcinoma locally invasive to the rectum is of obvious importance because of the different treatments and prognoses. History and physical examination play only a marginal role in differentiating between these ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The KITAKANTO Medical Journal
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0023-1908,1883-6135
DOI: 10.2974/kmj1951.45.107