Esophageal carcinoma metastatic to the patella. A case report

Patellar metastases

“…Patellectomy has sometimes been carried out with relief of pain [ 1,8,12,15], but some loss of extensor power. If treatment of the primary lesion is appropriate, the function of the knee should be maintained.…”

Patellar metastasis from a malignant melanoma

“…One patient was initially treated for septic arthritis [1], and one had been thought to have traumatic or tuberculous arthritis.…”

“…Only 16 cases of histologically proven patellar metastasis have been described in detail [1,2,5,8,9,10,12,13,14,16,17,18,19].…”

Patella and patellar tumors

“…[1] Buna karşın, metastatik patella tümörlerinin görülme sıklığı ile ilgili olarak literatürde kesin bir veri bulunmamaktadır ve çalışmalar sıklıkla olgu sunumları şeklindedir. [2][3][4]…”