Unusual location of a urinary bladder cancer metastasis
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Bladder cancer is the fourth most common malignancy among men in the Western world. Bone metastasis occurs in 27 % of the cases. Usually, the location is the spine. The present report describes the first case of a proven distant bone metastasis to the acromion from a urinary bladder carcinoma in a patient with shoulder pain.
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دوره 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009