title: Digital metastasis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a surgical trap. Case report and literature review.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of orthopaedic surgery, hôpital Beaujon, AP-HP, Clichy, France. ericplotkine@hotmail.fr
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Plotkine
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Coscas
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Guigui