title: [Suddenly occurring pain in the shin due to solitary metastasis to bone from a non-recognised primary tumour].
abstract: A woman who had formerly had adequately treated breast cancer presented with symptoms of pain in the right shin. An X-ray of the punctum maximum for the pain showed a bone lesion. Biopsy revealed that it came from an adenocarcinoma of the lung, contrary to the first diagnosis of breast cancer meta-stasis. The lung lesion had been seen on a subsequent computed tomography. There were no presenting symptoms relating to lung cancer. This case is interesting as adenocarcinoma metastasis to bone rarely occurs in the tibia and below the knee.
authors.affiliation: Radiologisk Afsnit, Diagnostisk Center, Regionshospitalet Silkeborg, Falkevej 1-3, 8600 Silkeborg. shefalichatterjee@yahoo.co.in.
authors.forename: Shefali Anup
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Chatterjee
authors.forename: Christin R Graff
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Isaksen
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D000368:Aged; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D059352:Musculoskeletal Pain / Q000209:etiology; D013977:Tibia / Q000473:pathology