title: [Muscular metastasis in a patient with adenocarcinoma of the colon. An infrequent complication].
abstract: Muscular metastases are unusual. Primary neoplasm use to be breast or lung, although any neoplastic process can have muscular metastatic potential. The usual location in psoas and paravertebral muscles. For its diagnosis we need a high index of suspicion, and can be helpful, electromyography and magnetic nuclear resonance. The follow up of a patient with colon adenocarcinoma and muscular metastases and a review of the subject is presented.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Municipal de Badalona, Barcelona.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pons Serra
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Moreno Solorzano
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vila Plana
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Arévalo Navarrete
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Grau Amorós
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000556:secondary*; D000368:Aged; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019042:Muscle Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D010001:Osteitis Deformans / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging