ABSTRACT
This case report refers to a 47-year old patient with prostate cancer associated with schistosomiasis mansoni, who was submitted to radical prostatectomy. This is the third report published in the literature with respect to this association, and up to the present time it is still not known whether a cause and effect relationship exists between the two pathologies. The association between schistosomiasis and cancer has been well-documented in bladder cancer; however, there are no data yet proving the association of this disease with prostatic neoplasia. In this report, a third documented case of prostatic adenocarcinoma and schistosomiasis mansoni is described and a literature review is performed.
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Animals , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Adenocarcinoma/complications , Prostatic Neoplasms/complications , Schistosomiasis mansoni/complications , Adenocarcinoma/pathology , Adenocarcinoma/surgery , Prostatectomy , Prostate/parasitology , Prostate/pathology , Prostatic Diseases/parasitology , Prostatic Diseases/pathology , Prostatic Diseases/surgery , Prostatic Neoplasms/pathology , Prostatic Neoplasms/surgery , Schistosomiasis mansoni/pathology , Schistosomiasis mansoni/surgeryABSTRACT
The term schistosomiasis encompasses a group of infectious disorders caused by five species of the genus Schistosoma, a blood trematode of outstanding importance in tropical areas. Some of these disorders have long been associated with malignant neoplasia, the most striking association being between disease caused by Schistosoma haematobium, the predominant etiological agent of urinary schistosomiasis, and squamous cell carcinoma of the bladder, a relatively uncommon vesical cancer in non-endemic areas. Four cases of simultaneous adenocarcinoma and schistosomiasis of the prostate have been previously reported (S. haematobium in three and S. mansoni in one). We report a fifth case of concomitant adenocarcinoma and schistosomiasis of the prostate in a 68-year-old Brazilian patient infected with S. mansoni. We also review the medical literature on the association between schistosomiasis and cancer.
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Aged , Animals , Humans , Male , Adenocarcinoma , Prostatic Neoplasms/complications , Schistosomiasis mansoni , Adenocarcinoma , Prostatic Neoplasms/diagnosis , Prostate/parasitology , Prostate/pathology , Schistosomiasis mansoniABSTRACT
Se realizo un estudio bacteriològico en muestras de orina de pacientes atendidos en el Hospital San Gabriel durante el periodo comprendido entre mayo de 1994 a septiembre de 1995. El diagnòstico clìnico fuè ITU (Infecciòn del tarcto urinario); de dichas muestras, 414 evidenciaron una bacteria como microorganismo causal. El estudio realizado, demuestra a E. coli como agente causal màs frecuente en ITU (88,4 porciento), lo cual concuerda con reportes internacionales previos