Cutaneous metastasis of colorectal cancer

Cutaneous metastases from internal malignant neoplasms are a rare event and a late clinical finding that is associated with disseminated disease and a poor prognosis. Skin metastases from colon tumors occur in only 4% of cases of metastatic colorectal cancer. They are most often located on the abdom...

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Autores principales: Bittencourt, Maraya de Jesus Semblano, Imbiriba, Andréa Albernaz, Oliveira, Othelo Amaral, dos Santos, Josie Eiras Bisi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6256216/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30484536
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20187610
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author Bittencourt, Maraya de Jesus Semblano
Imbiriba, Andréa Albernaz
Oliveira, Othelo Amaral
dos Santos, Josie Eiras Bisi
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Imbiriba, Andréa Albernaz
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description Cutaneous metastases from internal malignant neoplasms are a rare event and a late clinical finding that is associated with disseminated disease and a poor prognosis. Skin metastases from colon tumors occur in only 4% of cases of metastatic colorectal cancer. They are most often located on the abdominal skin. We report a case of 54-year-old male patient with a cutaneous metastatic focus on the lower abdomen as the initial presenting symptom of an underlying colon cancer.
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spelling pubmed-62562162018-11-30 Cutaneous metastasis of colorectal cancer Bittencourt, Maraya de Jesus Semblano Imbiriba, Andréa Albernaz Oliveira, Othelo Amaral dos Santos, Josie Eiras Bisi An Bras Dermatol Case Report Cutaneous metastases from internal malignant neoplasms are a rare event and a late clinical finding that is associated with disseminated disease and a poor prognosis. Skin metastases from colon tumors occur in only 4% of cases of metastatic colorectal cancer. They are most often located on the abdominal skin. We report a case of 54-year-old male patient with a cutaneous metastatic focus on the lower abdomen as the initial presenting symptom of an underlying colon cancer. Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6256216/ /pubmed/30484536 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20187610 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivative License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited and the work is not changed in any way.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6256216/
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