In the eighth decade of life cancer of the prostate is the leading cause of cancer death in men.16 In over 70% of autopsied cases, metastases have involved soft tissues and bones, in particular the pelvis, sacrum and lower vertebral column.4 The roentgenographic appearance is purely osteoblastic in over 78% of the cases8 and by its multiplicity, location and clinical background usually poses no diagnostic problem. Occasionally, a solitary metastasis in an unusual bone site is the sole manifestation of prostatic carcinoma and precedes the urologic symptoms by as much as two years.14 Exceptionally, a remotely located solitary metastasis of a clinically occult prostatic cancer may mimic a primary osteogenic sarcoma by the radiological appearance of sunburst calcification, as was the case in the present report.
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