Pseudo-chondrosarcoma: solitary osseous metastases from atypical bronchogenic carcinoma.
A patient with bronchogenic carcinoma with a solitary metastases to the femur in whom the clinical, radiologic, and pathologic setting suggested that the primary tumor was the bone lesion (chondrosarcoma) and the pulmonary lesion was a solitary metastasis is presented. This case is added to the limited literature indicating that mucin-secreting tumors metastatic to bone may simulate primary bone tumors radiographically.
D002288:Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous / Q000175:diagnosis*; D000368:Aged; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000175:diagnosis; D002283:Carcinoma, Bronchogenic / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002813:Chondrosarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis