Open AccessNasal Cavity Cancer with Distal Phalanx Metastasis: An Extremely Rare Case Report
Author(s) -
Kartick Rastogi,
Prashant Dadhich,
Sandeep Bhaskar,
Shivani Gupta
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
indian journal of medical and paediatric oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.229
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 0975-2129
pISSN - 0971-5851
DOI - 10.4103/ijmpo.ijmpo_255_17
Subject(s) - medicine , phalanx , nasal cavity , elbow , metastasis , lesion , cancer , radiology , surgery
Cancers of nasal cavity are relatively uncommon; and osseous metastases distal to the elbow and knee joints are also very rare. We herein report the two rare occurrences of nasal cavity carcinoma and acrometastasis together in the same patient, which is the first such case report to the best of our knowledge. The features associated with acrometastasis in the present study are similar to what has been cited in the literature, such as male gender, older age, widespread metastasis, single bone metastasis, lytic lesion, third finger, distal phalanx, poor prognosis, and short survival; however, involvement of left hand and nasal cavity as the primary site of tumor were the exceptions.