Single cutaneous metastasis of colon adenocarcinoma - Case report

Skin metastases are relatively rare and occur most often when the cancer is already advanced, invading other organs. As to location, they often seem to elect areas located close to the primary tumor, although distant sites, such as the scalp, may be affected with some frequency. We present a case of...

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Autores principales: Góes, Heliana Freitas de Oliveira, Lima, Caren dos Santos, de Souza, Mariana Boechat, Estrella, Rogério Ribeiro, Faria, Mônica Ali Novaes, Rochael, Mayra Carrijo
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4999115/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27579752
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20164122
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author Góes, Heliana Freitas de Oliveira
Lima, Caren dos Santos
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Estrella, Rogério Ribeiro
Faria, Mônica Ali Novaes
Rochael, Mayra Carrijo
author_facet Góes, Heliana Freitas de Oliveira
Lima, Caren dos Santos
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Estrella, Rogério Ribeiro
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description Skin metastases are relatively rare and occur most often when the cancer is already advanced, invading other organs. As to location, they often seem to elect areas located close to the primary tumor, although distant sites, such as the scalp, may be affected with some frequency. We present a case of a 76-year-old woman with colon adenocarcinoma that had a single metastatic lesion on the scalp.
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spelling pubmed-49991152016-08-29 Single cutaneous metastasis of colon adenocarcinoma - Case report Góes, Heliana Freitas de Oliveira Lima, Caren dos Santos de Souza, Mariana Boechat Estrella, Rogério Ribeiro Faria, Mônica Ali Novaes Rochael, Mayra Carrijo An Bras Dermatol Case Report Skin metastases are relatively rare and occur most often when the cancer is already advanced, invading other organs. As to location, they often seem to elect areas located close to the primary tumor, although distant sites, such as the scalp, may be affected with some frequency. We present a case of a 76-year-old woman with colon adenocarcinoma that had a single metastatic lesion on the scalp. Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4999115/ /pubmed/27579752 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20164122 Text en ©2016 by Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 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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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4999115/
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