Cutaneous skull metastasis from uterine leiomyosarcoma: a case report

BACKGROUND: Cutaneous metastases in the facial region occur in less than 0.5% of patients with metastatic cancer. CASE PRESENTATION: A 52-year-old woman who admitted with a lung and a skull skin nodule is presented. She had a known diagnosis of uterine leiomyosarcoma following an extended total hyst...

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Autores principales: Barbetakis, Nikolaos, Paliouras, Dimitrios, Asteriou, Christos, Samanidis, Georgios, Kleontas, Athanassios, Anestakis, Doxakis, Kaplanis, Kostas, Tsilikas, Christodoulos
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2683835/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19432974
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-7-45
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author Barbetakis, Nikolaos
Paliouras, Dimitrios
Asteriou, Christos
Samanidis, Georgios
Kleontas, Athanassios
Anestakis, Doxakis
Kaplanis, Kostas
Tsilikas, Christodoulos
author_facet Barbetakis, Nikolaos
Paliouras, Dimitrios
Asteriou, Christos
Samanidis, Georgios
Kleontas, Athanassios
Anestakis, Doxakis
Kaplanis, Kostas
Tsilikas, Christodoulos
author_sort Barbetakis, Nikolaos
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description BACKGROUND: Cutaneous metastases in the facial region occur in less than 0.5% of patients with metastatic cancer. CASE PRESENTATION: A 52-year-old woman who admitted with a lung and a skull skin nodule is presented. She had a known diagnosis of uterine leiomyosarcoma following an extended total hysterectomy two years ago. Excision biopsy of both nodules revealed metastatic disease. CONCLUSION: The appearance of a cutaneous nodule in a patient with a history of uterine leiomyosarcoma might indicate a metastatic tumor lesion. Biopsy and immunohistochemistry are essential for correct diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-26838352009-05-19 Cutaneous skull metastasis from uterine leiomyosarcoma: a case report Barbetakis, Nikolaos Paliouras, Dimitrios Asteriou, Christos Samanidis, Georgios Kleontas, Athanassios Anestakis, Doxakis Kaplanis, Kostas Tsilikas, Christodoulos World J Surg Oncol Case Report BACKGROUND: Cutaneous metastases in the facial region occur in less than 0.5% of patients with metastatic cancer. CASE PRESENTATION: A 52-year-old woman who admitted with a lung and a skull skin nodule is presented. She had a known diagnosis of uterine leiomyosarcoma following an extended total hysterectomy two years ago. Excision biopsy of both nodules revealed metastatic disease. CONCLUSION: The appearance of a cutaneous nodule in a patient with a history of uterine leiomyosarcoma might indicate a metastatic tumor lesion. Biopsy and immunohistochemistry are essential for correct diagnosis. BioMed Central 2009-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC2683835/ /pubmed/19432974 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-7-45 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.
spellingShingle Case Report
Barbetakis, Nikolaos
Paliouras, Dimitrios
Asteriou, Christos
Samanidis, Georgios
Kleontas, Athanassios
Anestakis, Doxakis
Kaplanis, Kostas
Tsilikas, Christodoulos
Cutaneous skull metastasis from uterine leiomyosarcoma: a case report
title Cutaneous skull metastasis from uterine leiomyosarcoma: a case report
title_full Cutaneous skull metastasis from uterine leiomyosarcoma: a case report
title_fullStr Cutaneous skull metastasis from uterine leiomyosarcoma: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Cutaneous skull metastasis from uterine leiomyosarcoma: a case report
title_short Cutaneous skull metastasis from uterine leiomyosarcoma: a case report
title_sort cutaneous skull metastasis from uterine leiomyosarcoma: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2683835/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19432974
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-7-45
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