title: Secondary malignant synovitis: report of three cases and review of the literature.
abstract: Metastatic malignant deposits in joints are rare and only 16 cases have been described. The details of three further cases are presented, a girl with Hodgkin's lymphoma in a sternoclavicular joint, an elderly lady with carcinoma of the ascending colon and knee metastases and a middle-aged man, also with knee deposits, from an adenocarcinoma of lung. The clinical features together with details of synovial fluid cytology of all 19 cases are analysed.
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D005260:Female; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007719:Knee Joint; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013247:Sternoclavicular Joint; D013582:Synovial Fluid / Q000166:cytology; D013585:Synovitis / Q000209:etiology*