Upper lip metastasis of sarcomatoid carcinoma of the lung – an unusual site of disease: a case report

BACKGROUND: Lip metastases are rare clinical events that are frequently mistaken for other diagnoses. For sarcomatoid lung carcinoma, a rare histologic variant of non-small cell lung cancer, the incidence and pattern of cutaneous spread is poorly understood. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a case of a...

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Autores principales: Le, Tri, Mayer, Melissa, Sailors, Joseph, Gerber, David E., Truelson, John M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5244539/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28100268
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-016-1178-y
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author Le, Tri
Mayer, Melissa
Sailors, Joseph
Gerber, David E.
Truelson, John M.
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description BACKGROUND: Lip metastases are rare clinical events that are frequently mistaken for other diagnoses. For sarcomatoid lung carcinoma, a rare histologic variant of non-small cell lung cancer, the incidence and pattern of cutaneous spread is poorly understood. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a case of a 79-year-old African American man with a rapidly progressive upper lip cutaneous lesion that provided the first evidence of distant metastatic spread of sarcomatoid lung carcinoma. CONCLUSIONS: This is the first reported case of lip metastasis in sarcomatoid lung carcinoma. It highlights the importance of maintaining a high level of suspicion for metastatic disease in the presence of new cutaneous findings as they may be the first evidence of advanced disease.
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spelling pubmed-52445392017-01-23 Upper lip metastasis of sarcomatoid carcinoma of the lung – an unusual site of disease: a case report Le, Tri Mayer, Melissa Sailors, Joseph Gerber, David E. Truelson, John M. J Med Case Rep Case Report BACKGROUND: Lip metastases are rare clinical events that are frequently mistaken for other diagnoses. For sarcomatoid lung carcinoma, a rare histologic variant of non-small cell lung cancer, the incidence and pattern of cutaneous spread is poorly understood. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a case of a 79-year-old African American man with a rapidly progressive upper lip cutaneous lesion that provided the first evidence of distant metastatic spread of sarcomatoid lung carcinoma. CONCLUSIONS: This is the first reported case of lip metastasis in sarcomatoid lung carcinoma. It highlights the importance of maintaining a high level of suspicion for metastatic disease in the presence of new cutaneous findings as they may be the first evidence of advanced disease. BioMed Central 2017-01-19 /pmc/articles/PMC5244539/ /pubmed/28100268 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-016-1178-y Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. 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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Le, Tri
Mayer, Melissa
Sailors, Joseph
Gerber, David E.
Truelson, John M.
Upper lip metastasis of sarcomatoid carcinoma of the lung – an unusual site of disease: a case report
title Upper lip metastasis of sarcomatoid carcinoma of the lung – an unusual site of disease: a case report
title_full Upper lip metastasis of sarcomatoid carcinoma of the lung – an unusual site of disease: a case report
title_fullStr Upper lip metastasis of sarcomatoid carcinoma of the lung – an unusual site of disease: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Upper lip metastasis of sarcomatoid carcinoma of the lung – an unusual site of disease: a case report
title_short Upper lip metastasis of sarcomatoid carcinoma of the lung – an unusual site of disease: a case report
title_sort upper lip metastasis of sarcomatoid carcinoma of the lung – an unusual site of disease: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5244539/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28100268
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-016-1178-y
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