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Case Rep Orthop. 2015;2015:962931. doi: 10.1155/2015/962931. Epub 2015 Oct 12.

A Bizarre, Unexplained, and Progressive External Rotation of the Shoulder as a Presentation of a Metastatic Deposit in the Rotator Cuff.

Case reports in orthopedics

Sherif El-Tawil, Aditya Prinja, Jeremy Stanton

Affiliations

  1. Department of Orthopaedics, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Hamstel Road, Harlow, Essex CM20 1QX, UK.
  2. Department of Orthopaedics, Colchester Hospital, Turner Road, Colchester CO4 5JL, UK.

PMID: 26543658 PMCID: PMC4620256 DOI: 10.1155/2015/962931

Abstract

We describe the first reported case of a tumour deposit within the rotator cuff presenting as a bizarre, progressive, and fixed external rotation deformity of the shoulder. It is also the first reported case to our knowledge of an oesophageal primary metastasising to the rotator cuff.

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