Prostate cancer presented with de novo brain metastases as initial manifestation: A case report with review of the literature

Abstract

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer and among the leading causes of cancer death in men and its clinical symptoms vary a lot. The most common metastatic site is the bones, but rarely prostate cancer can metastasize to brain in very advanced stages of the disease. However, brain metastases giving neurological symptoms as first manifestation of prostate cancers have been reported. Research of international literature revealed only seventeen patients (including our own) that were diagnosed with prostate cancer presented with neurological symptoms.