METASTASIS OF GASTRIC CANCER TO THE FIFTH METACARPAL BONE
| Autor: | Yuji Uchio, Wataru Miyamoto, Soichiro Yamamoto |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment Bone Neoplasms Adenocarcinoma Malignancy Amputation Surgical Metastasis Fifth metacarpal bone Stomach Neoplasms medicine Humans medicine.bone Aged business.industry Cancer Hand surgery General Medicine Metacarpal Bones Partial resection medicine.disease Metastatic bone tumour Magnetic Resonance Imaging Surgery Amputation Female business |
| Zdroj: | Hand Surgery. 13:193-195 |
| ISSN: | 1793-6535 0218-8104 |
| DOI: | 10.1142/s0218810408004079 |
| Popis: | We present a rare case of a 72-year-old woman who had a metastatic bone tumour on the fifth metacarpal of the left hand from gastric cancer. It had occurred in the patient, two years after subtotal gastrectomy and partial resection of a liver for advances gastric cancer with metastasis to the liver. A number of investigations and the needle biopsy confirmed the diagnosis of the metastatic malignant tumour of fifth metacarpal bone and an amputation was performed. Although our patient died 12 months after hand surgery, amputation was effective in providing relief from pain in the affected hand for the remainder of her life. It is necessary to consider rare acrometastasis to the hand if a patient complains of swelling and pain of the hand without a trigger if there is a history of malignancy, including gastric cancer. |
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