Digital metastasis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a surgical trap. Case report and literature review.
Acrometastases are rare and often misdiagnosed or overlooked. We report the case of an 80-year-old patient in whom an acrometastasis in the right long finger from a nasopharyngeal carcinoma was diagnosed. The treatment consisted of amputation through the proximal phalanx and resulted in a good recovery. To our knowledge, no case of acrometastasis from this origin has been reported in the literature to date. A literature review is also presented regarding acrometastasis diagnosis and treatment.
Plotkine
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Department of orthopaedic surgery, hôpital Beaujon, AP-HP, Clichy, France. ericplotkine@hotmail.fr
Coscas
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Guigui
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