Scrotal Skin Metastasis from Rectum Adenocarcinoma

Cutaneous metastases of rectal adenocarcinoma is a rare phenomenon. We present a 65 year-old man with a painless nodule on the scrotal skin. Excisional biopsy of the nodules revealed a metastasis from rectum adenocarcinoma. Afterwards, the left scrotum was treated with a radiation therapy and the pa...

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Autores principales: Ozgen, Aytul, Karakaya, Ebru, Bozdoğan, Nazan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3882932/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24416494
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/rt.2013.e60
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author Ozgen, Aytul
Karakaya, Ebru
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description Cutaneous metastases of rectal adenocarcinoma is a rare phenomenon. We present a 65 year-old man with a painless nodule on the scrotal skin. Excisional biopsy of the nodules revealed a metastasis from rectum adenocarcinoma. Afterwards, the left scrotum was treated with a radiation therapy and the patient also received a salvage chemotherapy. The patient is still alive without any distant metastasis after the therapy, which was initiated 12 months ago.
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spelling pubmed-38829322014-01-10 Scrotal Skin Metastasis from Rectum Adenocarcinoma Ozgen, Aytul Karakaya, Ebru Bozdoğan, Nazan Rare Tumors Case Report Cutaneous metastases of rectal adenocarcinoma is a rare phenomenon. We present a 65 year-old man with a painless nodule on the scrotal skin. Excisional biopsy of the nodules revealed a metastasis from rectum adenocarcinoma. Afterwards, the left scrotum was treated with a radiation therapy and the patient also received a salvage chemotherapy. The patient is still alive without any distant metastasis after the therapy, which was initiated 12 months ago. PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2013-12-05 /pmc/articles/PMC3882932/ /pubmed/24416494 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/rt.2013.e60 Text en ©Copyright A. Ozgen et al. 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 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full_unstemmed Scrotal Skin Metastasis from Rectum Adenocarcinoma
title_short Scrotal Skin Metastasis from Rectum Adenocarcinoma
title_sort scrotal skin metastasis from rectum adenocarcinoma
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3882932/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24416494
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/rt.2013.e60
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