A
patient with generalized tumour of lungs, with a compression in mediastinum.
At problems resulting from the basic affection suddenly an origin of
terrible pains of the shoulder and its oedema appear.
In the outpatient orthopaedic department a repeated artrocentesis of a supposed bursa is made without any success, and therefore the treatment is closed as an oedema of lymphatic etiology. In the surgical outpatient department it is closed as metastasis into the shoulder girdle.
View on the patient
Picture and scheme of the ultrasound examination of
metastasis into m. deltoideus
videosequence of metastasis into m. deltoideus
Metastasis into m. deltoideus with a presence of foci of a free liquid (at aspiration blood is found).
Dissecting report: metastasis of malocellulous carcinoma into m. deltoideus : Pathologic Anatomy Department, Masaryk Hospital, Usti nad Labem, MD. Kamila Rajkova