Lung cancer presenting as a metastasis to the carpal bones: a case report
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Lung cancer presenting as a metastasis to the carpal bones: a case report
UNLABELLED INTRODUCTION A first metastasis to the hand is extremely rare. Usually, an acrometastasis is a sign of very advanced disease, with the presence of previous multiple metastases elsewhere. The present paper is one of the very few case reports of first metastatic location to carpal bones. To date, only Lederer et al., in 1990, and Song and Yao in 2012, have described a metastasis to ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Case Reports
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1752-1947
DOI: 10.1186/1752-1947-6-384