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Gastric adenocarcinoma cutaneous metastasis arising at a previous surgical drain site: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Skin metastasis from internal carcinoma rarely occurs. It has an incidence of 0.7 to 9% and it may be the first sign of an unknown malignancy. However, it can also occur during follow-up. CASE PRESENTATION: A 90-year-old female patient was admitted to our surgical division with a diagn...

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Autores principales: Morelli, Umberto, Cirocchi, Roberto, Mecarelli, Valerio, Farinella, Eriberto, La Mura, Francesco, Ronca, Paolo, Giustozzi, Gianmario, Sciannameo, Francesco
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2652470/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19220898
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-3-65
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author Morelli, Umberto
Cirocchi, Roberto
Mecarelli, Valerio
Farinella, Eriberto
La Mura, Francesco
Ronca, Paolo
Giustozzi, Gianmario
Sciannameo, Francesco
author_facet Morelli, Umberto
Cirocchi, Roberto
Mecarelli, Valerio
Farinella, Eriberto
La Mura, Francesco
Ronca, Paolo
Giustozzi, Gianmario
Sciannameo, Francesco
author_sort Morelli, Umberto
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description INTRODUCTION: Skin metastasis from internal carcinoma rarely occurs. It has an incidence of 0.7 to 9% and it may be the first sign of an unknown malignancy. However, it can also occur during follow-up. CASE PRESENTATION: A 90-year-old female patient was admitted to our surgical division with a diagnosis of anemia from a bleeding gastric adenocarcinoma. She underwent a gastric resection and Billroth II retrocolic Hofmeister/Finsterer reconstruction. She developed an enteric fistula, which needed a permanent abdominal drain until the 60(th )postoperative day. After 12 months she was readmitted to our division with subacute small bowel obstruction and an erythematous swelling on the right side of the abdomen. Biopsies characterized it as a cutaneous metastasis from the gastric adenocarcinoma. No surgical therapy was performed given her poor clinical condition. CONCLUSION: Skin metastasis from carcinomas of the upper gastrointestinal tract is very rare. Persisting erythematous nodules must be biopsied in order to diagnose cutaneous metastases and to recognize them early and start prompt therapy with anti-tumour agents before the occurrence of massive visceral metastases.
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spelling pubmed-26524702009-03-07 Gastric adenocarcinoma cutaneous metastasis arising at a previous surgical drain site: a case report Morelli, Umberto Cirocchi, Roberto Mecarelli, Valerio Farinella, Eriberto La Mura, Francesco Ronca, Paolo Giustozzi, Gianmario Sciannameo, Francesco J Med Case Reports Case report INTRODUCTION: Skin metastasis from internal carcinoma rarely occurs. It has an incidence of 0.7 to 9% and it may be the first sign of an unknown malignancy. However, it can also occur during follow-up. CASE PRESENTATION: A 90-year-old female patient was admitted to our surgical division with a diagnosis of anemia from a bleeding gastric adenocarcinoma. She underwent a gastric resection and Billroth II retrocolic Hofmeister/Finsterer reconstruction. She developed an enteric fistula, which needed a permanent abdominal drain until the 60(th )postoperative day. After 12 months she was readmitted to our division with subacute small bowel obstruction and an erythematous swelling on the right side of the abdomen. Biopsies characterized it as a cutaneous metastasis from the gastric adenocarcinoma. No surgical therapy was performed given her poor clinical condition. CONCLUSION: Skin metastasis from carcinomas of the upper gastrointestinal tract is very rare. Persisting erythematous nodules must be biopsied in order to diagnose cutaneous metastases and to recognize them early and start prompt therapy with anti-tumour agents before the occurrence of massive visceral metastases. BioMed Central 2009-02-16 /pmc/articles/PMC2652470/ /pubmed/19220898 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-3-65 Text en Copyright ©2009 Morelli 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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Morelli, Umberto
Cirocchi, Roberto
Mecarelli, Valerio
Farinella, Eriberto
La Mura, Francesco
Ronca, Paolo
Giustozzi, Gianmario
Sciannameo, Francesco
Gastric adenocarcinoma cutaneous metastasis arising at a previous surgical drain site: a case report
title Gastric adenocarcinoma cutaneous metastasis arising at a previous surgical drain site: a case report
title_full Gastric adenocarcinoma cutaneous metastasis arising at a previous surgical drain site: a case report
title_fullStr Gastric adenocarcinoma cutaneous metastasis arising at a previous surgical drain site: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Gastric adenocarcinoma cutaneous metastasis arising at a previous surgical drain site: a case report
title_short Gastric adenocarcinoma cutaneous metastasis arising at a previous surgical drain site: a case report
title_sort gastric adenocarcinoma cutaneous metastasis arising at a previous surgical drain site: a case report
topic Case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2652470/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19220898
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-3-65
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