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We report a case of persisting chronic monoarthritis of the elbow in a 54-year-old woman with previous breast surgery for carcinoma. An open biopsy, of the elbow showed a chronic nonspecific synovitis and a poorly differentiated metastatic adenocarcinoma on the radial head. This is the first report of elbow arthritis due to metastatic breast carcinoma.
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Garcia-Morteo, D., Lema, B., Maldonadococco, J.A. et al. Carcinomatous arthritis of the elbow caused by metastatic breast carcinoma. Clin Rheumatol 6, 273–275 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02201036
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