Open AccessIsolated 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