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A Metastatic Deposit in the Patella from a Carcinoma of the Breast

Author(s) -

L. Klenerman

Publication year - 1965

Publication title -

postgraduate medical journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.568

H-Index - 99

eISSN - 1469-0756

pISSN - 0032-5473

DOI - 10.1136/pgmj.41.475.284

Subject(s) - medicine , metastatic carcinoma , general surgery , patella , breast carcinoma , carcinoma , surgery , pathology , breast cancer , cancer

PRIMARY tumours of the patella are rare. Osteoclastoma is the commonest neoplasm and twenty cases have been reported (Goodwin, 1961). Secondary involvement by tumour is most uncommon and may result either from direct spread by a primary sarcoma or a metastasis in the region of the knee joint, or from metastasis of a distant tumour. Thus two cases of metastasis from prostatic carcinoma have been recorded (Schmidt, 1907; Schwartz, 1909; both quoted by Cole, 1925). A pathological fracture occurring through a patella infiltrated by secondary tumour must be extremely unusual.

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