An Unusual Case of Acute Appendicitis due to Metastatic Prostatic Adenocarcinoma

الملخص EN

Acute appendicitis is a common surgical emergency in older adults.

In the elderly, like in younger cohorts, acute appendicitis most commonly arises without neoplastic underpinnings.

However, the occurrence of acute appendicitis in a patient with a concurrent abdominopelvic malignancy should trigger suspicion for the possibility of a metastatic appendiceal neoplasm.

We present the case of a 66-year-old man with a background of a biochemically recurrent prostatic adenocarcinoma who presented to the emergency department with acute appendicitis.

Histopathologic examination of the resected appendix revealed an unexpected metastatic spread from his prostatic adenocarcinoma.