Skeletal muscle metastases: primary tumours, prevalence, and radiological features.

  • Alexey Surov
  • Michael Hainz
  • Hans-Jürgen Holzhausen
  • Dirk Arnold
  • Michaela Katzer
  • Joerg Schmidt
  • Rolf Peter Spielmann
  • Curd Behrmann

Abstract

Although skeletal muscles comprise nearly 50% of the total human body mass and are well vascularised, metastases in the musculature are rare. The reported prevalence of skeletal muscle metastases from post-mortem studies of patients with cancer is inconstant and ranges from 0.03 to 17.5%.

Bibliographical data

Original languageGerman
Article number3
ISSN0938-7994
Publication statusPublished - 2010
pubmed 19707767