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Metastasis of renal cell carcinoma around suture anchor implants

  • Baek, Samuel;Shin, Myung Ho;Kim, Tae Min;Oh, Kyung-Soo;Lee, Dong Ryun;Chung, Seok Won
    • Clinics in Shoulder and Elbow
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.110-113
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    • 2021
  • We present an unusual case of bone metastases from renal cell carcinoma around orthopedic implants in a 78-year-old female with osteolytic, expansile, highly vascularized, malignant infiltration around suture anchors in the proximal humerus. The patient had undergone arthroscopic rotator cuff repair using suture anchor implants 6 years previously. After diagnosis of bone metastasis, she was successfully treated with metastasectomy and internal fixation using a plate and screws, with cement augmentation. This report is the first to document metastases around a suture anchor in a bone and suggests the vulnerability of suture anchor implants to tumor metastasis.