Open AccessDigital Acrometastasis as Initial Presentation in Carcinoma of Lung A Case Report and Review of Literature
Author(s) -
Tapan Kumar Sahoo,
Saroj Kumar Das,
Saroj Kumar Das Majumdar,
Surendra Nath Senapati,
Dillip Kumar Parida
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2016/16063.7951
Subject(s) - presentation (obstetrics) , medicine , lung , basal cell , squamous cell carcinoma of the lung , case presentation , pathology , histopathological examination , carcinoma , lung cancer , radiology , surgery
Bony metastases develop in 30% of all the cancers, but out of which only 1% to 3% occurs in the hand. Lung is the most common site for acrometastasis, followed by breast and renal cell cancer. Metastases to the digits are with non-specific presentation. We reported a case of 79-year-old male patient with initial presentation of swelling over left index finger, which was found to be squamous cell carcinoma of finger on histopathological examination. He was subsequently diagnosed as a case of squamous cell carcinoma of lung with acrometastasis.