Cortical Skeletal Metastasis in Malignant Melanoma

Cortical metastatic lesions of the appendicular skeleton from tumors of known primary origin

“…While no previous study has attempted to calculate an incidence of metastatic cortical lesions, most suggest that they are exceeding rare [3][4][5][6]10]. Since only one previous cortical lesion has been described at a non-appendicular site [4], it is reasonable to assume that limiting our search to the appendicular skeleton may have artificially raised our observed incidence of cortical metastases.…”

“…Recently, a relatively rare subset of cortically based metastatic lesions, predominantly within the appendicular skeleton, has been described in the radiologic literature [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. In fact, only one non-appendicular site, a single skull lesion, has been cited [4].…”