Inflammatory arthritis secondary to metastatic gastric cancer.
Samy K Metyas, Christopher A Lum, Anwar S Raza, Marina Vaysburd, Deborah M Forrester, Francisco P Quismorio
Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center, 2015 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA.
The Journal of rheumatology 2003 DecMetastatic spread of malignancy to the joints is rare and only a few cases of solid tumors have been reported. We describe a patient with inflammatory arthritis of the knee and ankle secondary to metastatic gastric adenocarcinoma to the joints and bone diagnosed by synovianalysis. Arthritis secondary to metastatic cancer is a poor prognostic sign. The diagnosis is based on a strong clinical suspicion, magnetic resonance imaging, and joint fluid cytology or synovial biopsy.
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Samy K Metyas, Christopher A Lum, Anwar S Raza, Marina Vaysburd, Deborah M Forrester, Francisco P Quismorio. Inflammatory arthritis secondary to metastatic gastric cancer. The Journal of rheumatology. 2003 Dec;30(12):2713-5
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PMID: 14719219
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