Metastatic Carcinoma to Skeletal Muscle

Herring, Charles L.; Harrelson, John M.; Scully, Sean P.

doi:10.1097/00003086-199810000-00029

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“…However, some authors like Lenchik et al [7] conclude that in the absence of clinical history, CT alone is not accurate for diagnosis and thus percutaneous aspiration is required. Similarly, Herring et al [8] from the study of 15 patients with metastatic carcinoma to skeletal muscle and a review of 52 cases reported in the literature, was unable to find any clinical or radiographic characteristics that distinguish metastatic carcinoma to muscle from soft tissue sarcomas.…”

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Iliopsoas Metastasis from Cervix Carcinoma Masquerading as Psoas Abscess

Kamal¹,

Touiti²,

Jouhadi³

2012

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Objectives: Contribution of a case of unusual spread of cervical carcinoma mimicking iliopsoas abscess fifteen years after initial radiotherapy. Method:A 65-year-old white woman with history of squamous cell carcinoma of uterine cervix treated 15 years ago, was referred to our department with clinical and imaging's findings simulating a psoas abcess.Result: Colposcopy and punch biopsy confirmed the diagnosis of carcinoma of the cervix. Needle aspirate of cystic mass yielded a watery chocolate-colored. Cytopathology revealed cells suggestive of squamous cell carcinoma consistent with the diagnosis of metastasis from carcinoma cervix. Consultations with radiation therapy and medical oncology suggested no additional therapy .The patient became increasingly cachectic and died with generalized metastasis 3 months after admission. Conclusion:Through this case, the authors highlights the fact that metastasis from squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix can present as a psoas abscess and demonstrates certain difficulties in diagnosis even with the newer imaging modalities. Iliopsoas Metastasis from Cervix Carcinoma Masquerading as Psoas Abscess

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“…The prognosis is poor because IPM is related to systemic spread and discourages the use of an aggressive local therapy [4,8,10,11]. Radiotherapy is effective in the local and regional treatment of cervical carcinoma but would not have been useful for the extensive intraabdominal tumor deposits in the psoas muscle.…”

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Iliopsoas Metastasis from Cervix Carcinoma Masquerading as Psoas Abscess

Kamal¹,

Touiti²,

Jouhadi³

2012

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“…However progression of muscle metastasis is associated with disseminated disease and bad prognosis. Most of the patients with muscle metastasis had disseminated disease in one year period and resultant mortality (8).…”

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Gluteal region muscle metastasis from squamous cell lung carcinoma

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Lung cancer is known as a disease leading to metastases to all types of organs. Although covering a large part of the body and of much blood building-up, skeletal muscles are rare metastatic areas. In autopsies, less than 1% of malignant cancers that are spread hematogenously is known to lead to metastasis. A 51-year-old male patient diagnosed with squamous cell lung cancer and known to be in regression via screening after the administration of 32-day curative radiotheraphy and 6-cycle chemotherapy, the patient was radiologically followed-up. Four months later, he was admitted to outpatient clinic with the complaint of left hip pain. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a lesion of nodular, necrotic metastatic mass within left gluteus muscles. As a result of tru-cut biopsy performed for the solid lesion, metastasis of carcinoma was detected. As also in our case, metastatic muscle disease should be suspected in patients with muscle pain.

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“…The mortalities reported in the literature were usually within 10 months of diagnosis [5,14,32] . The poor prognosis could be associated with the fact that skeletal muscle metastases generally occur as a result of systemic dissemination and limited treatment options were available at that point.…”

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confidence: 99%