Tarsal metastases in a patient with rectal cancer.
Bone metastases from colorectal cancer are uncommon and usually present late in the natural history of metastatic disease. This case report describes a 48-year-old man who developed an unusual distribution of bony metastases with multifocal osteolytic tarsal metastases 50 months after excision of a rectal carcinoma. An open biopsy was required to establish the diagnosis, exclude osteomyelitis and allow palliative radiotherapy to be given.
Sebag-Montefiore
D J
DJ
Department of Radiotherapy, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK.
Lam
K S
KS
Arnott
S J
SJ
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000556:secondary*; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005534:Foot Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D013639:Tarsal Bones