Open AccessRotator cuff metastases: A report of two cases with literature review
Author(s) -
Gökhan Söker,
Eda Söker,
Bozkurt Gülek,
Arbil Açıkalın,
Elife Aşut,
Ömer Faruk Kaya,
Okan Dilek,
Cengiz Yılmaz
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
north american journal of medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2250-1541
pISSN - 1947-2714
DOI - 10.4103/1947-2714.147988
Subject(s) - medicine , rotator cuff , magnetic resonance imaging , soft tissue , context (archaeology) , biopsy , radiology , metastasis , differential diagnosis , pathology , cancer , paleontology , biology
Distant metastases of primary malignancies to the skeletal muscle tissue are a very rare event. Distant metastases that affect the rotator cuff are even rarer, and only a few of cases have been reported so far.