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
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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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author Tzaveas, Alexandros
Paraskevas, Georgios
Pazis, Ioannis
Dimitriadis, Anastasios
Kitsoulis, Panagiotis
Vrettakos, Aristeidis
author_facet Tzaveas, Alexandros
Paraskevas, Georgios
Pazis, Ioannis
Dimitriadis, Anastasios
Kitsoulis, Panagiotis
Vrettakos, Aristeidis
author_sort Tzaveas, Alexandros
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description 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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spelling pubmed-25906102008-11-29 Metastasis of bronchogenic carcinoma to the 5(th )metacarpal bone: a case report Tzaveas, Alexandros Paraskevas, Georgios Pazis, Ioannis Dimitriadis, Anastasios Kitsoulis, Panagiotis Vrettakos, Aristeidis Cases J 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 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. BioMed Central 2008-10-30 /pmc/articles/PMC2590610/ /pubmed/18973651 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-284 Text en Copyright © 2008 Tzaveas et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Tzaveas, Alexandros
Paraskevas, Georgios
Pazis, Ioannis
Dimitriadis, Anastasios
Kitsoulis, Panagiotis
Vrettakos, Aristeidis
Metastasis of bronchogenic carcinoma to the 5(th )metacarpal bone: a case report
title Metastasis of bronchogenic carcinoma to the 5(th )metacarpal bone: a case report
title_full Metastasis of bronchogenic carcinoma to the 5(th )metacarpal bone: a case report
title_fullStr Metastasis of bronchogenic carcinoma to the 5(th )metacarpal bone: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Metastasis of bronchogenic carcinoma to the 5(th )metacarpal bone: a case report
title_short Metastasis of bronchogenic carcinoma to the 5(th )metacarpal bone: a case report
title_sort metastasis of bronchogenic carcinoma to the 5(th )metacarpal bone: a case report
topic Case Report
url 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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