Prostate cancer metastasis to calcaneus: a solitary lesion at an atypical site, dormant for more than 10 years

In prostate cancer patients, if bone scan demonstrates a solitary lesion in atypical area, this is possibly an indication of metastatic disease. Therefore, biopsy confirmation is required to determine the nature of the abnormality and therefore dictates further staging investigations and treatment o...

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Autores principales: McCarthy, Michael T, Ebrahem, Hawa, Aibdeen, Zariena, Hodnett, Philip A, Mulcahy, Elizabeth, Osman, Nemer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2016
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5052757/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27757245
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2054270416660934
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author McCarthy, Michael T
Ebrahem, Hawa
Aibdeen, Zariena
Hodnett, Philip A
Mulcahy, Elizabeth
Osman, Nemer
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spelling pubmed-50527572016-10-18 Prostate cancer metastasis to calcaneus: a solitary lesion at an atypical site, dormant for more than 10 years McCarthy, Michael T Ebrahem, Hawa Aibdeen, Zariena Hodnett, Philip A Mulcahy, Elizabeth Osman, Nemer JRSM Open Case Reports In prostate cancer patients, if bone scan demonstrates a solitary lesion in atypical area, this is possibly an indication of metastatic disease. Therefore, biopsy confirmation is required to determine the nature of the abnormality and therefore dictates further staging investigations and treatment options. SAGE Publications 2016-10-04 /pmc/articles/PMC5052757/ /pubmed/27757245 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2054270416660934 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page(https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
spellingShingle Case Reports
McCarthy, Michael T
Ebrahem, Hawa
Aibdeen, Zariena
Hodnett, Philip A
Mulcahy, Elizabeth
Osman, Nemer
Prostate cancer metastasis to calcaneus: a solitary lesion at an atypical site, dormant for more than 10 years
title Prostate cancer metastasis to calcaneus: a solitary lesion at an atypical site, dormant for more than 10 years
title_full Prostate cancer metastasis to calcaneus: a solitary lesion at an atypical site, dormant for more than 10 years
title_fullStr Prostate cancer metastasis to calcaneus: a solitary lesion at an atypical site, dormant for more than 10 years
title_full_unstemmed Prostate cancer metastasis to calcaneus: a solitary lesion at an atypical site, dormant for more than 10 years
title_short Prostate cancer metastasis to calcaneus: a solitary lesion at an atypical site, dormant for more than 10 years
title_sort prostate cancer metastasis to calcaneus: a solitary lesion at an atypical site, dormant for more than 10 years
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5052757/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27757245
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2054270416660934
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