Low-Back Pain as the Presenting Symptom of Malignant Breast Tumors

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PRIMARY malignant tumors of the female breast that have metastasized to the vertebral column and bony pelvis are not infrequently overlooked. These patients are at times erroneously treated for the numerous other causes of backache, such as "lumbago," "sciatica," sacroiliac strain and retroversion of the uterus. The frequency of diffuse skeletal metastases from relatively small malignant nodules in the breast is a well-recognized clinical fact, but the subject has not been extensively discussed or become crystallized in the literature.Lamarque1 in his discussion of sketetal metastases from breast cancer makes the point that many of his patients complained of vague . . .

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