Facial skin metastasis due to small-cell lung cancer: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Cutaneous metastases in the facial region occur in less than 0.5% of patients with metastatic cancer. They are an important finding and are not often the first sign leading to diagnosis. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe the case of a 64-year-old male patient who presented with dyspnea, p...

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Autores principales: Barbetakis, Nikolaos, Samanidis, Georgios, Paliouras, Dimitrios, Samanidou, Elpida, Tzimorota, Zoi, Asteriou, Christos, Xirou, Persefoni, Tsilikas, Christodoulos
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2640407/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19178730
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-3-32
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author Barbetakis, Nikolaos
Samanidis, Georgios
Paliouras, Dimitrios
Samanidou, Elpida
Tzimorota, Zoi
Asteriou, Christos
Xirou, Persefoni
Tsilikas, Christodoulos
author_facet Barbetakis, Nikolaos
Samanidis, Georgios
Paliouras, Dimitrios
Samanidou, Elpida
Tzimorota, Zoi
Asteriou, Christos
Xirou, Persefoni
Tsilikas, Christodoulos
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description INTRODUCTION: Cutaneous metastases in the facial region occur in less than 0.5% of patients with metastatic cancer. They are an important finding and are not often the first sign leading to diagnosis. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe the case of a 64-year-old male patient who presented with dyspnea, pleuritic pain, loss of weight and a nodule on his left cheek. A chest X-ray revealed a left upper lobe mass with mediastinal lymphadenopathy. Excision biopsy of the facial nodule revealed small-cell lung carcinoma. Palliative chemo-radiotherapy was administered and the patient survived for 12 months. CONCLUSION: A high index of suspicion is necessary for the early detection of facial cutaneous metastases. Appropriate treatment may prolong patient survival.
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spelling pubmed-26404072009-02-12 Facial skin metastasis due to small-cell lung cancer: a case report Barbetakis, Nikolaos Samanidis, Georgios Paliouras, Dimitrios Samanidou, Elpida Tzimorota, Zoi Asteriou, Christos Xirou, Persefoni Tsilikas, Christodoulos J Med Case Reports Case report INTRODUCTION: Cutaneous metastases in the facial region occur in less than 0.5% of patients with metastatic cancer. They are an important finding and are not often the first sign leading to diagnosis. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe the case of a 64-year-old male patient who presented with dyspnea, pleuritic pain, loss of weight and a nodule on his left cheek. A chest X-ray revealed a left upper lobe mass with mediastinal lymphadenopathy. Excision biopsy of the facial nodule revealed small-cell lung carcinoma. Palliative chemo-radiotherapy was administered and the patient survived for 12 months. CONCLUSION: A high index of suspicion is necessary for the early detection of facial cutaneous metastases. Appropriate treatment may prolong patient survival. BioMed Central 2009-01-29 /pmc/articles/PMC2640407/ /pubmed/19178730 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-3-32 Text en Copyright ©2009 Barbetakis et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Barbetakis, Nikolaos
Samanidis, Georgios
Paliouras, Dimitrios
Samanidou, Elpida
Tzimorota, Zoi
Asteriou, Christos
Xirou, Persefoni
Tsilikas, Christodoulos
Facial skin metastasis due to small-cell lung cancer: a case report
title Facial skin metastasis due to small-cell lung cancer: a case report
title_full Facial skin metastasis due to small-cell lung cancer: a case report
title_fullStr Facial skin metastasis due to small-cell lung cancer: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Facial skin metastasis due to small-cell lung cancer: a case report
title_short Facial skin metastasis due to small-cell lung cancer: a case report
title_sort facial skin metastasis due to small-cell lung cancer: a case report
topic Case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2640407/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19178730
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-3-32
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