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Adult Mouse Digit Amputation and Regeneration: A Simple Model to Investigate Mammalian Blastema Formation and Intramembranous Ossification
Published on: July 12, 2019
An Unusual Cause of Digit Pain: Acrometastasis From Lung Adenocarcinoma
Noelle Provenzano1, Lindsey Forker1, Emerson T Trimble2
1Internal Medicine, Einstein Medical Center Montgomery, East Norriton, USA.
Abstract:
Acrometastasis accounts for 0.1% of all cases of metastatic cancer, with the most common primary tumor being lung cancer. Since acrometastasis is extremely rare and it generally has a nonspecific clinical presentation, it provides a diagnostic dilemma. We present a case of a 70-year-old female with a painful swollen right index finger which was found to be a metastatic lesion from adenocarcinoma of the lung. The patient expired within one month of diagnosis due to complications from her rapidly progressive metastatic cancer.
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