Mota, Ernestina Natália and Mesquita, Isabel Paulos and Pires, Carlos and Victorino, Rui M.M. (2019) Hypercalcemia and Extensive Chest Metastasis of Vulvar Squamous Cell Carcinoma. European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 6 (9). ISSN 2284-2594
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Abstract
A 73-year-old woman with a diagnosis of vulvar carcinoma submitted to curative surgery 5 years previously, presented to the emergency department with prostration and vulvar haemorrhage. Although the gynaecological examination was unremarkable, she had a mass in the left chest wall and hypercalcemia. A CT scan of the thorax revealed a voluminous left hemithorax mass invading the mediastinum, lung, pleura and chest wall. Ultrasound-guided biopsy of the mass showed infiltration by a well-differentiated keratinizing squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). This case report describes an extremely rare metastatic pattern in vulvar SCC concomitant with paraneoplastic hypercalcemia.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Squamous cell carcinoma of the vulva, paraneoplastic hypercalcemia, pulmonary metastasis of vulvar squamous cell carcinoma |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) > 616 Malattie (classificare qui la Clinica medica, la medicina basata sull'evidenza, la Medicina interna, la Medicina sperimentale) |
| Depositing User: | Chiara D'Arpa |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Nov 2020 20:48 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Nov 2020 20:48 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/19514 |
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