Cutaneous metastasis of colon adenocarcinoma: case report and review of the literature

Skin metastases from colorectal carcinoma are rare and signal advanced disease. We present a case of an 80-year-old male with a large skin metastatic focus in the lower abdomen, a year after resection of a colonic adenocarcinoma. The patient had already finished receiving his first cycle of chemothe...

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Autores principales: Nesseris, Ioannis, Tsamakis, Charalambos, Gregoriou, Stamatis, Ditsos, Ilias, Christofidou, Eleftheria, Rigopoulos, Dimitris
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3876003/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24346880
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20132441
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Sumario:Skin metastases from colorectal carcinoma are rare and signal advanced disease. We present a case of an 80-year-old male with a large skin metastatic focus in the lower abdomen, a year after resection of a colonic adenocarcinoma. The patient had already finished receiving his first cycle of chemotherapy shortly before the discovery of the abdominal nodules and at the same period a chest X-ray, revealed shadows at the base of the right lung.

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