Zosteriform Lesions in an Elderly Man-Look Beyond Herpes Zoster

Cutaneous metastasis in a zosteriform pattern is a very rare entity being reported only in 63 patients worldwide. Cutaneous metastases usually presents late in the course of the disease or sometimes after the treatment of the primary when it indicates recurrence of a treated malignancy. We report a...

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Autores principales: Raveendra, Leena, Pemmanda, Belliappa, Subramanya, Amrutha, Nagaraju, Umashankar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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E-IJD Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4601453/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26538732
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.164440
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author Raveendra, Leena
Pemmanda, Belliappa
Subramanya, Amrutha
Nagaraju, Umashankar
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description Cutaneous metastasis in a zosteriform pattern is a very rare entity being reported only in 63 patients worldwide. Cutaneous metastases usually presents late in the course of the disease or sometimes after the treatment of the primary when it indicates recurrence of a treated malignancy. We report a case of zosteriform cutaneous metastases masquerading as lymphangioma without prior presentation of the primary malignancy.
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spelling pubmed-46014532015-11-04 Zosteriform Lesions in an Elderly Man-Look Beyond Herpes Zoster Raveendra, Leena Pemmanda, Belliappa Subramanya, Amrutha Nagaraju, Umashankar Indian J Dermatol E-IJD Case Report Cutaneous metastasis in a zosteriform pattern is a very rare entity being reported only in 63 patients worldwide. Cutaneous metastases usually presents late in the course of the disease or sometimes after the treatment of the primary when it indicates recurrence of a treated malignancy. We report a case of zosteriform cutaneous metastases masquerading as lymphangioma without prior presentation of the primary malignancy. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4601453/ /pubmed/26538732 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.164440 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Dermatology 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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