Metastasis of bronchogenic carcinoma to the 5(th )metacarpal bone: a case report

BACKGROUND: Metastatic lesions to the hand are very rare and represent 0.1% of all osseous metastases. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a patient with metastasis of bronchogenic carcinoma of the lung to the 5(th )metacarpal to draw the attention for the potential of such lesions to be developed in this...

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Autores principales: Tzaveas, Alexandros, Paraskevas, Georgios, Pazis, Ioannis, Dimitriadis, Anastasios, Kitsoulis, Panagiotis, Vrettakos, Aristeidis
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2590610/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18973651
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-284
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: Metastatic lesions to the hand are very rare and represent 0.1% of all osseous metastases. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a patient with metastasis of bronchogenic carcinoma of the lung to the 5(th )metacarpal to draw the attention for the potential of such lesions to be developed in this region. Due to the extensive metastasis to the hand the patient was referred to the oncologists. CONCLUSION: The surgeon should be cautious regarding the differential diagnosis, the usual poor prognosis of such patients and the questionable need for reconstructive surgery.

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