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Role of Orchiectomy in Treatment

Theodore V. Benderev, MD; John T. Grayhack, MD; John M. Bockrath, MD; Erol T. Uke, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1986;146(3):598-599.

Abstract
• We describe a patient with a radiologically verified inferior vena cava obstruction due to metastatic adenocarcinoma of the prostate who was treated by orchiectomy. The prompt regression of the disease causing the obstruction confirms that orchiectomy alone can be an effective treatment of massive, functionally significant metastatic carcinoma of the prostate.

(Arch Intern Med 1986;146:598-599)

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Urology, Veterans Administration Lakeside Hospital and Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago. Dr Benderev is presently with the Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, University of California at Irvine.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Aug 12, 1985.

Read before the meeting of the North Central Section of the American Urologic Association, Marco Island, Fla, Nov 6, 1982.

Reprint requests to Department of Urology, Northwestern University Medical School, 303 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611 (Dr Grayhack).

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