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Cutaneous metastases presenting as genital ulcer disease

Cutaneous metastasis from an internal organ malignancy is rare and as, the presenting sign of malignancy is an uncommon phenomenon. Their presence, signals a poor prognosis. We report a case of 50-year-old female who was referred to sexually transmitted diseases - out patient department, with compla...

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Autores principales: Vasuki, S., Durgalakshmi, J., Latha, J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4066597/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24958986
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2589-0557.132422
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author Vasuki, S.
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description Cutaneous metastasis from an internal organ malignancy is rare and as, the presenting sign of malignancy is an uncommon phenomenon. Their presence, signals a poor prognosis. We report a case of 50-year-old female who was referred to sexually transmitted diseases - out patient department, with complaints of multiple genital ulcers to rule out sexually transmitted infections. After thorough evaluation, she was found to be a case of carcinoma cervix with metastatic squamous cell carcinomatous deposits on external genitalia. This case was unique because of relatively asymptomatic nature of internal malignancy and atypical presentation of carcinoma cervix as cutaneous metastasis.
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spelling pubmed-40665972014-06-23 Cutaneous metastases presenting as genital ulcer disease Vasuki, S. Durgalakshmi, J. Latha, J. Indian J Sex Transm Dis AIDS Case Report Cutaneous metastasis from an internal organ malignancy is rare and as, the presenting sign of malignancy is an uncommon phenomenon. Their presence, signals a poor prognosis. We report a case of 50-year-old female who was referred to sexually transmitted diseases - out patient department, with complaints of multiple genital ulcers to rule out sexually transmitted infections. After thorough evaluation, she was found to be a case of carcinoma cervix with metastatic squamous cell carcinomatous deposits on external genitalia. This case was unique because of relatively asymptomatic nature of internal malignancy and atypical presentation of carcinoma cervix as cutaneous metastasis. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4066597/ /pubmed/24958986 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2589-0557.132422 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS 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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Cutaneous metastases presenting as genital ulcer disease
title Cutaneous metastases presenting as genital ulcer disease
title_full Cutaneous metastases presenting as genital ulcer disease
title_fullStr Cutaneous metastases presenting as genital ulcer disease
title_full_unstemmed Cutaneous metastases presenting as genital ulcer disease
title_short Cutaneous metastases presenting as genital ulcer disease
title_sort cutaneous metastases presenting as genital ulcer disease
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4066597/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24958986
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2589-0557.132422
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