Breast to bone: Acral metastasis

CASE REPORT

Year : 2022 \| Volume : 5 \| Issue : 1 \| Page : 67-70

Breast to bone: Acral metastasis Abhay K Kattepur¹, GN Manjunath², Sreeramulu Patrapalli Nadipanna³, Krishna Raj², D Aswathappa¹ ¹ Department of Surgical Oncology, R. L. Jalappa Institute of Oncology, Sri Devaraj Urs Academy of Higher Education and Research, Kolar, Karnataka, India ² Department of Radiation Oncology, R. L. Jalappa Institute of Oncology, Sri Devaraj Urs Academy of Higher Education and Research, Kolar, Karnataka, India ³ Department of Surgery, Sri Devaraj Urs Academy of Higher Education and Research, Kolar, Karnataka, India Correspondence Address: Dr. Abhay K Kattepur Department of Surgical Oncology, R. L. Jalappa Institute of Oncology, Sri Devaraj Urs Academy of Higher Education and Research, Tamaka, Kolar, Karnataka India Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None DOI: 10.4103/jco.jco_10_22

Metastasis of the acral bones is a rare phenomenon in breast cancer. Fibular metastasis is extremely uncommon and is usually associated with disseminated disease. We herein describe an elderly woman who presented with a metachronous fibular metastasis as a sign of oligo-recurrent metastatic breast cancer. The patient was treated with palliative radiotherapy with satisfactory outcomes. A brief review of the literature follows.



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