Metastasis to left scapula with unknown primary: Approach to pathological diagnosis

Bony metastasis is a frequent occurrence in malignancy. However, the clinical presentation and pathological findings may sometimes be more in favor of a primary bone lesion. In such cases, immunochemistry has a very important role to play in reaching a final diagnosis. We present the case of a 35 ye...

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Autores principales: Vasenwala, Shaista M, Ansari, Hena A, Haider, Nazima, Sabir, Amir bin, Ur Rehman, Aseeb
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3876639/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24455527
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2278-330X.105856
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author Vasenwala, Shaista M
Ansari, Hena A
Haider, Nazima
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Ur Rehman, Aseeb
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description Bony metastasis is a frequent occurrence in malignancy. However, the clinical presentation and pathological findings may sometimes be more in favor of a primary bone lesion. In such cases, immunochemistry has a very important role to play in reaching a final diagnosis. We present the case of a 35 year male patient who was investigated for a lytic lesion in the left scapula and was finally diagnosed with metastatic adenocarcinoma with the help of immunostaining.
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spelling pubmed-38766392014-01-16 Metastasis to left scapula with unknown primary: Approach to pathological diagnosis Vasenwala, Shaista M Ansari, Hena A Haider, Nazima Sabir, Amir bin Ur Rehman, Aseeb South Asian J Cancer Case Report Bony metastasis is a frequent occurrence in malignancy. However, the clinical presentation and pathological findings may sometimes be more in favor of a primary bone lesion. In such cases, immunochemistry has a very important role to play in reaching a final diagnosis. We present the case of a 35 year male patient who was investigated for a lytic lesion in the left scapula and was finally diagnosed with metastatic adenocarcinoma with the help of immunostaining. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3876639/ /pubmed/24455527 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2278-330X.105856 Text en Copyright: © South Asian Journal of Cancer http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Metastasis to left scapula with unknown primary: Approach to pathological diagnosis
title_fullStr Metastasis to left scapula with unknown primary: Approach to pathological diagnosis
title_full_unstemmed Metastasis to left scapula with unknown primary: Approach to pathological diagnosis
title_short Metastasis to left scapula with unknown primary: Approach to pathological diagnosis
title_sort metastasis to left scapula with unknown primary: approach to pathological diagnosis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3876639/
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