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METASTASIS IN A PATELLA: A RARE SITE
Author(s) -
Kwa Samuel,
Nade Sydney
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1989.tb01581.x
Subject(s) - medicine , patella , adenocarcinoma , metastasis , general surgery , knee pain , surgery , pathology , osteoarthritis , cancer , alternative medicine
Primary neoplasms of the patella are rare, and metastases of the patella are rarer still. A case is presented of a 64 year old woman whose pain in the left knee, resulting from patellar neoplasms, was subsequently found to result from secondary spread from a renal adenocarcinoma.