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Collision metastasis of bladder and prostate carcinoma to a single pelvic lymph node

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Genitourinary organs are at greater risk for multiple primary malignant neoplasms because of the high incidence of these tumours as primaries among all other organs. We present a case of prostate and bladder carcinoma metastasized to a single pelvic lymph node, called a “collision” metastasis, in a patient with four primary tumours.

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  1. Department of Urology, Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, NY, USA

    A. Ergen & M. Irwin

  2. School of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

    M. D. Balbay

  3. Department of Pathology, Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, NY, USA

    R. Torno

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Ergen, A., Balbay, M.D., Irwin, M. et al. Collision metastasis of bladder and prostate carcinoma to a single pelvic lymph node. International Urology and Nephrology 27, 743–745 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02552140

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