Acrometastasis accounts for 0.1% of all cases of metastatic cancer, with the most common primary tumor being lung cancer. Since acrometastasis is extremely rare and it generally has a nonspecific clinical presentation, it provides a diagnostic dilemma. We present a case of a 70-year-old female with a painful swollen right index finger which was found to be a metastatic lesion from adenocarcinoma of the lung. The patient expired within one month of diagnosis due to complications from her rapidly progressive metastatic cancer.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10241530 | PMC |
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.38475 | DOI Listing |
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