Digital Acrometastasis as Initial Presentation in Carcinoma of Lung A Case Report and Review of Literature
Published: June 1, 2016 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2016/.7951
Tapan Kumar Sahoo, Saroj Kumar Das, Saroj Kumar Das Majumdar, Surendra Nath Senapati, Dillip Kumar Parida
1. Senior Resident, Department of Radiation Oncology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
2. Senior Resident, Department of Radiation Oncology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
3. Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
4. Professor and Head, Department of Radiation Oncology, Acharya Harihara Regional Cancer Centre, Cuttack, Odisha, India.
5. Professor and Head, Department of Radiation Oncology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
Correspondence
Dr. Dillip Kumar Parida,
Professor and Head, Department of Radiation Oncology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences,
Bhubaneswar-751019, Odisha, India.
E-mail : drdkparida@gmail.com
Bony metastases develop in 30% of all the cancers, but out of which only 1% to 3% occurs in the hand. Lung is the most common site for acrometastasis, followed by breast and renal cell cancer. Metastases to the digits are with non-specific presentation. We reported a case of 79-year-old male patient with initial presentation of swelling over left index finger, which was found to be squamous cell carcinoma of finger on histopathological examination. He was subsequently diagnosed as a case of squamous cell carcinoma of lung with acrometastasis.
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