Isolated Humeral Metastasis in Uterine Cervical Cancer: A Rare Entity | Zendy

Mahrooz Malek | Zendy; Alireza Rajabzadeh Kanafi | Zendy; Ramin Pourghorban | Zendy; Reza Nafisi Moghadam | Zendy

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Isolated Humeral Metastasis in Uterine Cervical Cancer: A Rare Entity

Author(s) -

Mahrooz Malek,

Alireza Rajabzadeh Kanafi,

Ramin Pourghorban,

Reza Nafisi Moghadam

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

journal of clinical imaging science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.279

H-Index - 18

eISSN - 2156-7514

pISSN - 2156-5597

DOI - 10.4103/2156-7514.105137

Subject(s) - medicine , metastasis , cervix , bone metastasis , cervical cancer , hysterectomy , radiation therapy , stage (stratigraphy) , humerus , radiology , cancer , gynecology , surgery , paleontology , biology

Bone metastasis in cancer of uterine cervix, especially in the form of isolated bone involvement is a rare manifestation. Herein, we report the first case of isolated humeral metastasis in a known case of locally advanced cervical cancer. A fifty-six-year old female presented with International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) Stage IV A squamous cell carcinoma of uterine cervix. She was treated with a combination of radiation and chemotherapy and then total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy. Seven months later, she developed an isolated lytic lesion in the left humerus, which turned out to be a bone metastatic lesion

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