Introduction:

Among the malignant lesions described is penile cancer. This entity constitutes 2% to 5% of male urogenital tumors, and metastatic lesion is very rare.

Objectives:

To describe the clinical characteristics and torpid evolution of a patient with metastases in the penis from colon neoplasia.

Clinical case:

54-year-old patient, personal health history. Smoker, history of benign prostatic hyperplasia and chronic prostatitis, which begins with pain in the lower abdomen and abdominal tumor, intra-abdominal plastron is diagnosed and is surgically intervened with a biopsy of the lesion that reports colon adenocarcinoma. At 7 days of evolution, lesions appeared on the glans that resulted in metastasis of colon adenocarcinoma. He dies from complications of the disease within six months.

Conclusions:

Colonic neoplasm metastases in the penis are infrequent, they indicate an advanced stage of the disease, with an unfavorable prognosis.

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