Two Cases of Acrometastasis to the Hands and Review of the Literature

Abstract

This paper reports two cases of acrometastasis to the hands. The first case discusses a 78-year-old woman with a lesion in her left second metacarpal. This lesion was the first indication of the woman’s primary diagnosis of non-small cell lung carcinoma. The second case reports a 69-year-old woman with a lesion in her right third metacarpal. This lesion developed 17 years after her primary diagnosis of breast carcinoma, and was an addition to numerous other osseous metastases.