Leg Pain Disclosing Lung Cancer: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Abstract

Table 1: Initial symptomatology of psoas muscle metastasis with unknown primaries at presentation Authors Initial presentation Primary cancer Gharaibeh et al 5 Abdominal, groin, and anterior thigh pain Duodenal adenocarcinoma Bernardino et al 3 Abdominal and back pain NSCLC Strauss et al 4 Right flank pain Lung SCC Tonelli et al 10 Crural neuralgia Bronchial carcinoma Ampil et al 6 Sacrococcygeal pain Colon cancer Amoiridis et al 7 Meralgia paresthetica Unknown Yoneyama et al 8 Low back pain Breast cancer Nabi et al 9 Low back pain Urinary bladder TCC NSCLC = non-small cell lung cancer; SCC = squamous cell carcinoma; TCC = transitional cell carcinoma.

Multidisciplinary treatment of skeletal muscle metastasis from lung cancer: A case of triceps muscle metastasis of lung squamous cell cancer

“…The pain was the most frequent symptom of muscle metastasis in both literature search. The paralysis was reported in only two cases [ 12 , 13 ]. However, in both cases, the performance status of patient was deteriorated by paralysis due to muscle metastasis.…”