Seborrheic Keratoses of Florid Eruption

We report the case of a 79-year-old Caucasian man, who developed numerous pruritic seborrheic keratoses on his chest and back within one year. An underlying malignant disease was suspected. Upper and lower endoscopies were performed and the patient was diagnosed with adenocarcinoma of the ascending...

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Autores principales: Gharwan, Helen, Gradon, Jeremy D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2012
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Published online: October, 2012
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3506034/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23185162
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000343939
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description We report the case of a 79-year-old Caucasian man, who developed numerous pruritic seborrheic keratoses on his chest and back within one year. An underlying malignant disease was suspected. Upper and lower endoscopies were performed and the patient was diagnosed with adenocarcinoma of the ascending colon. We discuss the clinical significance of his cutaneous symptoms/signs, and review the medical literature on the paraneoplastic sign of Leser-Trélat.
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spelling pubmed-35060342012-11-26 Seborrheic Keratoses of Florid Eruption Gharwan, Helen Gradon, Jeremy D. Case Rep Oncol Published online: October, 2012 We report the case of a 79-year-old Caucasian man, who developed numerous pruritic seborrheic keratoses on his chest and back within one year. An underlying malignant disease was suspected. Upper and lower endoscopies were performed and the patient was diagnosed with adenocarcinoma of the ascending colon. We discuss the clinical significance of his cutaneous symptoms/signs, and review the medical literature on the paraneoplastic sign of Leser-Trélat. S. Karger AG 2012-10-25 /pmc/articles/PMC3506034/ /pubmed/23185162 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000343939 Text en Copyright © 2012 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No-Derivative-Works License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
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