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Patellar metastasis from a malignant melanoma
H J Jaeger1, G H Kruegener, A G Donovan
1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Scarborough Hospital, England.
International Orthopaedics
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
We report a patient with a patellar metastasis from a malignant melanoma. Only 16 other cases have been previously described in detail in the literature. A lytic lesion in the patella is most often caused by a benign tumour, but a primary or secondary malignant tumour has to be excluded.