Recurrence of Merkel cell carcinoma in the gastrointestinal tract: a case report

BACKGROUND: Merkel cell carcinoma is a rare and aggressive skin malignancy that arises from primary neural cells and has a tendency for local recurrence and regional lymph node metastases. There are only a few cases in the literature reporting metastases of Merkel cell carcinoma to the gastrointesti...

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Autores principales: Tuktamyshov, Rasikh, Jain, Dhanpat, Ginsburg, Philip M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4430924/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25947008
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-015-1139-3
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author Tuktamyshov, Rasikh
Jain, Dhanpat
Ginsburg, Philip M
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description BACKGROUND: Merkel cell carcinoma is a rare and aggressive skin malignancy that arises from primary neural cells and has a tendency for local recurrence and regional lymph node metastases. There are only a few cases in the literature reporting metastases of Merkel cell carcinoma to the gastrointestinal tract. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a 70 year old Caucasian female with distant history of Merkel cell carcinoma who presented with iron-deficiency anemia. Colonoscopy performed later for the evaluation of anemia revealed 1 cm polyp in ascending colon which turned out to be the recurrence of Merkel cell carcinoma. CONCLUSION: Metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma to the gastrointestinal tract or any other organ should be considered in patients with a history of Merkel cell carcinoma.
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spelling pubmed-44309242015-05-15 Recurrence of Merkel cell carcinoma in the gastrointestinal tract: a case report Tuktamyshov, Rasikh Jain, Dhanpat Ginsburg, Philip M BMC Res Notes Case Report BACKGROUND: Merkel cell carcinoma is a rare and aggressive skin malignancy that arises from primary neural cells and has a tendency for local recurrence and regional lymph node metastases. There are only a few cases in the literature reporting metastases of Merkel cell carcinoma to the gastrointestinal tract. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a 70 year old Caucasian female with distant history of Merkel cell carcinoma who presented with iron-deficiency anemia. Colonoscopy performed later for the evaluation of anemia revealed 1 cm polyp in ascending colon which turned out to be the recurrence of Merkel cell carcinoma. CONCLUSION: Metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma to the gastrointestinal tract or any other organ should be considered in patients with a history of Merkel cell carcinoma. BioMed Central 2015-05-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4430924/ /pubmed/25947008 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-015-1139-3 Text en © Tuktamyshov et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Ginsburg, Philip M
Recurrence of Merkel cell carcinoma in the gastrointestinal tract: a case report
title Recurrence of Merkel cell carcinoma in the gastrointestinal tract: a case report
title_full Recurrence of Merkel cell carcinoma in the gastrointestinal tract: a case report
title_fullStr Recurrence of Merkel cell carcinoma in the gastrointestinal tract: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Recurrence of Merkel cell carcinoma in the gastrointestinal tract: a case report
title_short Recurrence of Merkel cell carcinoma in the gastrointestinal tract: a case report
title_sort recurrence of merkel cell carcinoma in the gastrointestinal tract: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4430924/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25947008
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-015-1139-3
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