Metastatic Eccrine Porocarcinoma: A Rare Case of Successful Treatment

The successful treatment of the rare malignancy eccrine porocarcinoma (EP) is extremely challenging, often not rewarding and when associated with metastatic disease, therapy results are disappointing. We present a unique case of treatment response of metastatic EP, with a significant disease-free in...

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Autores principales: Mandaliya, Hiren, Nordman, Ina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2016
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5043158/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27721767
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000448073
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Sumario:The successful treatment of the rare malignancy eccrine porocarcinoma (EP) is extremely challenging, often not rewarding and when associated with metastatic disease, therapy results are disappointing. We present a unique case of treatment response of metastatic EP, with a significant disease-free interval. The patient has remained in clinical and radiological remission for 36 months since diagnosis of metastatic disease.

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