TY - JOUR
AU - Bsch, Dennis
AB - Q J Med 2012; 105:1019 doi:10.1093/qjmed/hcr185 Advance Access Publication 28 September 2011 Clinical picture A 31-year-old woman presented with sudden Interestingly, the tumour was also presentable in a 99m onset of hemoptysis. Radiologic imaging revealed performed Tc bone scan (Figure 2). Via bron- choscopy the pathology was determined as a metas- a large pulmonary mass in the right lower lobe tasis of a giant-cell tumour. The patient had reported (8 cm in diameter) and additional small bilateral of a surgical excision of a giant-cell tumour in her nodules. The computed tomography showed small cervical spine 10 years ago. calcifications within the large lung tumour (Figure 1). Giant-cell tumour of the bone is a relatively un- common tumour that is classified as benign. On the contrary, it is known to be locally aggressive, with a high recurrence rate of almost 50%. Pulmonary metastases appear in 3% of cases. They are usually diagnosed after 3 years, and up to 11 years after the first diagnosis. In our patient the hemoptysis spon- taneously ceased, and she had been referred for lung surgery. Photographs and text from: Dennis Bo¨sch, Head of the Section of Pulmonology, Klinikum Bremerhaven teaching hospital (Medical Department 1), Postbrookstrasse 
TI - Late pulmonary metastases of a giant-cell tumour of the spine
JF - QJM: An International Journal of Medicine
DO - 10.1093/qjmed/hcr185
DA - 2012-10-28
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/late-pulmonary-metastases-of-a-giant-cell-tumour-of-the-spine-sH7Gs47v2c
SP - 1019
EP - 1019
VL - 105
IS - 10
DP - DeepDyve
ER -