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Metastatic prostate cancer in vertebrae.

From the Interactive Case Study Companion to Robbins 6th Edition Pathologic Basis of Disease

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• Most common site of mets: an older man with cancer of the vertebral bones is assumed to have prostate cancer _ it is virtually diagnostic.

• Local invasion occurs to seminal vesicles, lymph nodes, and base of bladder
  • Spreads hematogenously to bones.