An unexpected digital papillary adenocarcinoma of the thumb (*)

Digital papillary adenocarcinoma (DPAca) is an aggressive lesion with high metastatic potential, which is easily misdiagnosed. We present a 55-year-old male with a cystic lesion on his right thumb. Above all else, lesions of the digits should be sent for histopathology routinely, regardless of their...

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Autores principales: Nash, Mitchell, Burn, Juliet, Chan, Simon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5127384/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27990456
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23320885.2016.1240623
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description Digital papillary adenocarcinoma (DPAca) is an aggressive lesion with high metastatic potential, which is easily misdiagnosed. We present a 55-year-old male with a cystic lesion on his right thumb. Above all else, lesions of the digits should be sent for histopathology routinely, regardless of their history or appearance.
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spelling pubmed-51273842016-12-16 An unexpected digital papillary adenocarcinoma of the thumb (*) Nash, Mitchell Burn, Juliet Chan, Simon Case Reports Plast Surg Hand Surg Case Report Digital papillary adenocarcinoma (DPAca) is an aggressive lesion with high metastatic potential, which is easily misdiagnosed. We present a 55-year-old male with a cystic lesion on his right thumb. Above all else, lesions of the digits should be sent for histopathology routinely, regardless of their history or appearance. Taylor & Francis 2016-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5127384/ /pubmed/27990456 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23320885.2016.1240623 Text en © 2016 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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