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
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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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author Nesseris, Ioannis
Tsamakis, Charalambos
Gregoriou, Stamatis
Ditsos, Ilias
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Gregoriou, Stamatis
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description 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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spelling pubmed-38760032014-01-08 Cutaneous metastasis of colon adenocarcinoma: case report and review of the literature Nesseris, Ioannis Tsamakis, Charalambos Gregoriou, Stamatis Ditsos, Ilias Christofidou, Eleftheria Rigopoulos, Dimitris An Bras Dermatol Case Report 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. Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3876003/ /pubmed/24346880 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20132441 Text en ©2013 by Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Cutaneous metastasis of colon adenocarcinoma: case report and review of the literature
title Cutaneous metastasis of colon adenocarcinoma: case report and review of the literature
title_full Cutaneous metastasis of colon adenocarcinoma: case report and review of the literature
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title_short Cutaneous metastasis of colon adenocarcinoma: case report and review of the literature
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