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Salako AA, Arowolo OA, Omonisi EA, et al. Incidental carcinoma of the prostate gland presenting with initial manifestation of disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (dic) in a middle aged man: a case report. Cases J. 2009;2:144doi: 10.1186/1757-1626-2-144.
Salako, A. A., Arowolo, O. A., Omonisi, E. A., Adisa, A. O., Titiloye, N. A., & Adelusola, K. (2009). Incidental carcinoma of the prostate gland presenting with initial manifestation of disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (dic) in a middle aged man: a case report. Cases journal, 2144. https://doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-144
Salako, Ayo Abdulkadir, et al. "Incidental carcinoma of the prostate gland presenting with initial manifestation of disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (dic) in a middle aged man: a case report." Cases journal vol. 2 (2009): 144. doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-144
Salako AA, Arowolo OA, Omonisi EA, Adisa AO, Titiloye NA, Adelusola K. Incidental carcinoma of the prostate gland presenting with initial manifestation of disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (dic) in a middle aged man: a case report. Cases J. 2009 Sep 29;2:144. doi: 10.1186/1757-1626-2-144. PMID: 19292908; PMCID: PMC2783100.
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Cases J. 2009 Sep 29;2:144. doi: 10.1186/1757-1626-2-144.

Incidental carcinoma of the prostate gland presenting with initial manifestation of disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (dic) in a middle aged man: a case report.

Cases journal

Ayo Abdulkadir Salako, Olukayode Adeolu Arowolo, Emmanuel Abidemi Omonisi, Adewale Oluseye Adisa, Nicholas Akinwale Titiloye, Kayode Adelusola

Affiliations

  1. Department of Surgery, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile - Ife, Osun State, Nigeria. [email protected].

PMID: 19292908 PMCID: PMC2783100 DOI: 10.1186/1757-1626-2-144

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Incidental carcinoma of the prostate gland is a common clinical problem among elderly males but this malignancy presenting initially with features of Disseminated Intravascular Coagulopathy (DIC) in the African blacks is rare. Disseminateded intravascular coagulathy is the most frequent coagulation disorder in patients with prostate cancer, However DIC as a first manifestation of prostate cancer is unusual.

CASE REPORT: This paper reports a case of a 56 year old Nigerian civil servant who presented initially with clinical features of DIC characterised by bleeding from multilple orifices but was subsequently diagnosed at autopsy to be infiltrating adenocarcinoma of the prostate.

CONCLUSION: This rare case of DIC should be considered especially in elderly men when no other cause can be found for coagulopathy.

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