Cellulitis-like symptoms manifested by bone metastasis of lung cancer in a patient living with human immunodeficiency virus
| Autor: | Yusuke Okuma, Jumpei Kashima, Kageaki Watanabe, Atushi Ajisawa, Tsunekazu Hishima |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Axillary Lymph Node Biopsy medicine.medical_specialty Lung Neoplasms Biopsy Population Bone Neoplasms HIV Infections Dermatology Adenocarcinoma 03 medical and health sciences Fatal Outcome 0302 clinical medicine Antiretroviral Therapy Highly Active medicine Humans Pharmacology (medical) 030212 general & internal medicine Radionuclide Imaging education Lung cancer education.field_of_study medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Bone metastasis Cancer Cellulitis Middle Aged medicine.disease Surgery Infectious Diseases Bone scintigraphy 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Tomography X-Ray Computed business |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of STD & AIDS. 27:912-916 |
| ISSN: | 1758-1052 0956-4624 |
| Popis: | Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients are at a high risk of cancer compared with the general population. As the use of antiretroviral therapy (ART) has increased, non-AIDS-defining cancers have also increased in the past decade. A 61-year-old man with HIV infection on ART developed a painful, erythematous and oedematous lower left leg and an associated fever. He was initially treated with antibiotics for cellulitis but there was no improvement, which warranted further investigation. A translucent lesion was found by X-ray imaging and bone scintigraphy showed bone metastasis from a primary adenocarcinoma of the lung, documented by chest computed tomography and an axillary lymph node biopsy. The patient died three months after the diagnosis despite undergoing chemotherapy. This case demonstrates that physicians should consider metastatic malignancies as a differential diagnoses for diverse skin changes in HIV-infected patients. |
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