Bone and lymph node metastases from occult mammary carcinoma: a case report of carcinoma of unknown primary (CUP) Syndrome

Cancer of unknown provenance is a rare disease, accounting approximately for up to 1% of all breast cancers. A 68-year-old female was admitted to the Medical Oncology Unit of Policlinico Universitario G.Martino because of diffused bone-involvement, with mixed (osteolytic/osteoblastic) features, whic...

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Autores principales: Cattafi, Antonino, Santarpia, Mariacarmela, Micalizzi, Martina Francesca, Sofia, Carmelo, Condorelli, Elvira, Dottore, Alessia, Altavilla, Giuseppe, Blandino, Alfredo, Ascenti, Giorgio, Marino, Maria Adele
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The British Institute of Radiology. 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6945249/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31938570
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20190064
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Sumario:Cancer of unknown provenance is a rare disease, accounting approximately for up to 1% of all breast cancers. A 68-year-old female was admitted to the Medical Oncology Unit of Policlinico Universitario G.Martino because of diffused bone-involvement, with mixed (osteolytic/osteoblastic) features, which interested almost every skeletal structure of the body (vertebral bodies of the entire column, costal skeleton, sternum, proximal third of both humeri, scapulae, clavicles, pelvis and femurs), suspicious for metastatic disease.

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