Extensive Cutaneous Metastatic Breast Carcinoma of the Hand and Upper Extremity: A Case Report

Journal of Hand Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 252-255

  French, Frederick P ^a   Murray, Peter M ^a   Perdikis, Galen ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast carcinoma; cutaneous metastasis; shoulder disarticulation

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARM AMPUTATION; ARM DISEASE; ARTICLE; BREAST ADENOCARCINOMA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HAND TUMOR; HUMAN; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; MASTECTOMY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RARE DISEASE; SKIN METASTASIS;

ADULT; AMPUTATION; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; SKIN NEOPLASMS; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 33846563030     PISSN: 03635023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhsa.2006.10.022     Document Type: Article

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