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Thumb metastasis from small cell lung cancer treated with radiation
Heloisa de Andrade Carvalho1, Paulo W C Tsai, Teresa Yae Takagaki
1Division of Oncology, Radiotherapy Servide of the Radiology Institute (InRad) Hospital das Clínicas, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Revista Do Hospital Das Clinicas
|March 4, 2003
Abstract:
A rare case of thumb metastasis from small cell lung cancer is presented. The patient underwent local radiotherapy with complete palliation of symptoms. She died 4 months later with disseminated disease. Considerations about incidence, treatment, and physiopathology of this kind of dissemination are made. Conservative treatment of finger metastasis with radiation may be considered due to the poor outcome of these patients.