Metastatic malignancy to the bones of the hand
β Scribed by Tae Soo Chung
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1983
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 276 KB
- Volume
- 24
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-4790
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β¦ Synopsis
Abstract
Metastatic involvement of the bones of the hand is extremely rate with an incidence of 0.007%. As of this report there are 55 cases reported in the Englishβlanguage literature. This paper reports two additional cases and the literature is reviewed.
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We have treated six patients with cancer metastatic to the hand. All patients died within 6 months after the appearance of hand metastasis. We polled the combined membership of the American Association for Surgery of the Hand and the American Society for Surgery of the Hand to determine their experi