Acta Médica del Centro (Mar 2014)
Adenocarcinoma of the Gleason 6 prostate
Abstract
This is a 69 year old patient with a medical history of ischemic heart disease, hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus who was admitted twice in the "Arnaldo Milián Castro" Surgical Hospital of the City of Santa Clara, Province Villa Clara, by decay and weight loss, abdominal tumors of four and 5cm respectively on the right flank and left hemiparesis with neurological symptoms, physical examination was found to further enlargement of the thyroid. He had a long evolution in living and he performed various add -abdominal and thyroid ultrasound, chest X-ray and computed tomography of the skul, which showed an increase in nodular thyroid volume and a parahilum left pulmonary inflammatory process, not reached a definitive clinical diagnosis and died 55 days after admission.