Two Cases of Acrometastasis to the Hands and Review of the Literature
| Autor: | Joel Rubenstein, John Wong, Cyril Danjoux, Edward Kai-Hua Chow, Candi J. Flynn, Albert Yee, Monique Christakis, Darwin Yip |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
| Předmět: |
Acrometastasis
medicine.medical_specialty business.industry medicine.medical_treatment Rectum Case Report Phalanx Thumb Metacarpal bones medicine.disease Metastasis Surgery Lesion E-Manuscript Article Summary medicine.anatomical_structure bone metastases Amputation hand metastasis medicine Carcinoma medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Current Oncology Volume 15 Issue 5 Pages 189-58 |
| ISSN: | 1718-7729 |
| Popis: | This paper reports two cases of acrometastasis to the hands. The first case involved a 78-year-old woman with a permeative osteolytic lesion in her proximal second metacarpal. A biopsy of this lesion suggested a diagnosis of non-small-cell lung carcinoma with secondary osseous metastasis. This was the first presentation of the woman&rsquo s primary diagnosis. A single 8-Gy fraction of palliative radiotherapy was delivered to the patient&rsquo s left hand. The treatment proved successful: the woman soon experienced pain relief and regained the use of her hand. The second case involved a 69-year-old woman with extensive lytic destruction involving the proximal two thirds of her third metacarpal. This patient had been diagnosed with carcinoma of the breast in 1990. She also received a single 8-Gy fraction of radiation, which improved both her pain and her hand mobility. |
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