Anterior knee pain: an unusual presentation of renal cell carcinoma

Metastasis of any kind to the patella is rare. Metastasis to the patella causing symptoms representing the first presentation of underlying malignancy is rarer still. We report the case of a previously fit and well 74-year-old male presenting with left anterior knee pain. The initial diagnosis was o...

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Autores principales: Broomfield, John, Ralte, Peter, Morapudi, Syam, Vasireddy, Naveen, Kershaw, Steven
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2014
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4197919/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24876400
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rju018
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author Broomfield, John
Ralte, Peter
Morapudi, Syam
Vasireddy, Naveen
Kershaw, Steven
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description Metastasis of any kind to the patella is rare. Metastasis to the patella causing symptoms representing the first presentation of underlying malignancy is rarer still. We report the case of a previously fit and well 74-year-old male presenting with left anterior knee pain. The initial diagnosis was osteoarthritis but after continued symptoms a diagnosis of solitary patella metastasis from a primary renal cell carcinoma was confirmed.
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spelling pubmed-41979192014-10-16 Anterior knee pain: an unusual presentation of renal cell carcinoma Broomfield, John Ralte, Peter Morapudi, Syam Vasireddy, Naveen Kershaw, Steven J Surg Case Rep Case Reports Metastasis of any kind to the patella is rare. Metastasis to the patella causing symptoms representing the first presentation of underlying malignancy is rarer still. We report the case of a previously fit and well 74-year-old male presenting with left anterior knee pain. The initial diagnosis was osteoarthritis but after continued symptoms a diagnosis of solitary patella metastasis from a primary renal cell carcinoma was confirmed. Oxford University Press 2014-03-27 /pmc/articles/PMC4197919/ /pubmed/24876400 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rju018 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. © The Author 2014. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com.
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Anterior knee pain: an unusual presentation of renal cell carcinoma
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title_full Anterior knee pain: an unusual presentation of renal cell carcinoma
title_fullStr Anterior knee pain: an unusual presentation of renal cell carcinoma
title_full_unstemmed Anterior knee pain: an unusual presentation of renal cell carcinoma
title_short Anterior knee pain: an unusual presentation of renal cell carcinoma
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4197919/
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