Metastasis in a patella: a rare site.
Primary neoplasms of the patella are rare, and metastases of the patella are rarer still. A case is presented of a 64 year old woman whose pain in the left knee, resulting from patellar neoplasms, was subsequently found to result from secondary spread from a renal adenocarcinoma.
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Westmead Hospital, New South Wales.
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D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary*; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000556:secondary*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms; D008875:Middle Aged; D010329:Patella / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011859:Radiography