Case Reports in Gastroenterology (Dec 2008)

Chemotherapeutic Treatment of Priapism in Metastatic Rectal Cancer

  • Y. Kitai,
  • H. Takahashi,
  • A. Goto,
  • H. Iida,
  • H. Mawatari,
  • K. Fujita,
  • M. Yoneda,
  • M. Inamori,
  • Y. Abe,
  • N. Kobayashi,
  • H. Kirikoshi,
  • K. Kubota,
  • S. Saito,
  • A. Nakajima

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1159/000183537
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 3
pp. 505 – 508

Abstract

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A 65-year-old man was admitted with penile tenderness and dysuria due to priapism. Enhanced computed tomography revealed metastatic tumors in the liver, lung, sacrum and lymph nodes. Advanced rectal cancer, detected by colonoscopy as a primary tumor, was treated with chemotherapy (FOLFOX4). Although the rectal cancer showed no change, five months of chemotherapy improveid the priapism, suggesting that chemotherapy can improve rare symptoms of rectal cancer.

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