Elbow joint pain is not necessarily lung cancer, but also trauma, infection, sterile inflammation, elbow arthritis and so on. And lung cancer itself will not cause elbow joint pain, but it may cause elbow joint pain when distant metastasis of lung cancer occurs.
1. Lung cancer: In the early stage of lung cancer, patients mainly suffer from cough, sputum, hemoptysis, anemia, emaciation, fatigue, etc., and elbow joint pain does not occur. In the late stage of lung cancer, patients may have distant metastasis, especially bone metastasis, which may cause elbow joint pain when it invades the elbow joint.
2. Elbow joint trauma: there is clear history of elbow joint trauma, and the pain is mostly caused by soft tissue contusion and strain at elbow joint, and the more serious cases may be caused by elbow joint fracture and dislocation.
3. Infection: commonly caused by bacterial infection in the soft tissues of the elbow joint, which may be characterized by redness, swelling, heat and pain in the local area.
4. Elbow arthritis: Rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, gouty arthritis, etc., which can cause elbow joint pain.
When the elbow joint pain, it is recommended that patients go to the hospital to improve the auxiliary examination, in order to clarify the cause of the disease, the professional physician for the condition of the corresponding treatment.