An unusual case of finger swelling: A case report

A 66 year old man initially presented with haemoptysis and subsequently required a pneumonectomy for a lung mass, following this he had a finger swelling which was found to be a rare leiomyosarcoma and this was a metastatic deposit. This pattern of metastasis for this type of tumour has not been des...

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Autores principales: Graham, Richard M, Sharp, Melanie C, Ashcroft, G Patrick
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2783111/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19946526
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-155
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description A 66 year old man initially presented with haemoptysis and subsequently required a pneumonectomy for a lung mass, following this he had a finger swelling which was found to be a rare leiomyosarcoma and this was a metastatic deposit. This pattern of metastasis for this type of tumour has not been described before.
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spelling pubmed-27831112009-11-28 An unusual case of finger swelling: A case report Graham, Richard M Sharp, Melanie C Ashcroft, G Patrick Cases J Case Report A 66 year old man initially presented with haemoptysis and subsequently required a pneumonectomy for a lung mass, following this he had a finger swelling which was found to be a rare leiomyosarcoma and this was a metastatic deposit. This pattern of metastasis for this type of tumour has not been described before. BioMed Central 2009-10-16 /pmc/articles/PMC2783111/ /pubmed/19946526 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-155 Text en Copyright ©2009 Graham 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.
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