ZOSTERIFORM SKIN METASTASES: CLUE TO AN UNDIAGNOSED BREAST CANCER

Cancer metastases represent the most devastating aspect of malignancy, since the mortality of cancer patients is mainly related to the metastatic behavior of the primary neoplasm. Skin metastases are usually late events in the course of tumor progression. Excluding melanoma, the most common tumor to...

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Autores principales: Virmani, Neha C, Sharma, Yugal K, Panicker, Narayan K, Dash, Kedar N, Patvekar, Milind A, Deo, Kirti S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3276906/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22345780
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.91838
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author Virmani, Neha C
Sharma, Yugal K
Panicker, Narayan K
Dash, Kedar N
Patvekar, Milind A
Deo, Kirti S
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Panicker, Narayan K
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description Cancer metastases represent the most devastating aspect of malignancy, since the mortality of cancer patients is mainly related to the metastatic behavior of the primary neoplasm. Skin metastases are usually late events in the course of tumor progression. Excluding melanoma, the most common tumor to metastasize to the skin is breast cancer. Patients who develop cutaneous metastases rarely present with a zosteriform distribution. Herein, we present a 60-year-old female, an undiagnosed case of breast cancer, with zosteriform metastases along her right T2-T3 dermatome.
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spelling pubmed-32769062012-02-16 ZOSTERIFORM SKIN METASTASES: CLUE TO AN UNDIAGNOSED BREAST CANCER Virmani, Neha C Sharma, Yugal K Panicker, Narayan K Dash, Kedar N Patvekar, Milind A Deo, Kirti S Indian J Dermatol Case Report Cancer metastases represent the most devastating aspect of malignancy, since the mortality of cancer patients is mainly related to the metastatic behavior of the primary neoplasm. Skin metastases are usually late events in the course of tumor progression. Excluding melanoma, the most common tumor to metastasize to the skin is breast cancer. Patients who develop cutaneous metastases rarely present with a zosteriform distribution. Herein, we present a 60-year-old female, an undiagnosed case of breast cancer, with zosteriform metastases along her right T2-T3 dermatome. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3276906/ /pubmed/22345780 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.91838 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Dermatology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Virmani, Neha C
Sharma, Yugal K
Panicker, Narayan K
Dash, Kedar N
Patvekar, Milind A
Deo, Kirti S
ZOSTERIFORM SKIN METASTASES: CLUE TO AN UNDIAGNOSED BREAST CANCER
title ZOSTERIFORM SKIN METASTASES: CLUE TO AN UNDIAGNOSED BREAST CANCER
title_full ZOSTERIFORM SKIN METASTASES: CLUE TO AN UNDIAGNOSED BREAST CANCER
title_fullStr ZOSTERIFORM SKIN METASTASES: CLUE TO AN UNDIAGNOSED BREAST CANCER
title_full_unstemmed ZOSTERIFORM SKIN METASTASES: CLUE TO AN UNDIAGNOSED BREAST CANCER
title_short ZOSTERIFORM SKIN METASTASES: CLUE TO AN UNDIAGNOSED BREAST CANCER
title_sort zosteriform skin metastases: clue to an undiagnosed breast cancer
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3276906/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22345780
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.91838
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