A case of gastric cancer with acanthosis nigricans.
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Acanthosis Nigricans – a Clinical Manifestation of a Gastric Cancer
Diffuse cutaneous hyperpigmentation may have various causes: endocrine, metabolic, autoimmune, melanosis secondary to metastatic melanoma, drug or heavy metal poisoning. A cause to remember is acanthosis nigricans, which, in the form of paraneoplastic syndrome may be the first or even the only clinical manifestation of a cancer. The most common cause of malignant acanthosis nigricans is the gas...
متن کاملMalignant acanthosis nigricans associated with prostate cancer: a case report
BACKGROUND Acanthosis nigricans is characterized by hyperpigmentation and hyperkeratosis of the skin or mucous membranes. Its malignant form is associated with internal neoplasms, especially gastric adenocarcinoma (55-61%). Coexistence with prostate cancer is uncommon. In the paraneoplastic type of this dermatosis, the skin and mucous lesions are characteristically of more sudden onset and more...
متن کاملA case of nevoid acanthosis nigricans.
Sir, Naevoid acanthosis nigricans (AN) is an extremely rare form of AN that can manifest with a characteristic naevoid appearance at any age before puberty (1 – 3). It is not associated with any known syndrome, endocrinopathy, drugs or internal malignancy (1 – 3) and, thus far, there have been only 2 case reports in the literature of naevoid AN with a unilateral distribution (1, 2). We report a...
متن کاملMalignant Acanthosis Nigricans Associated with Ovarian Cancer
Malignant acanthosis nigricans is a cutaneous eruption characterized by symmetric hyperpigmented hyperkeratosis, dermal papillomatosis, and mucosal involvement associated with internal malignancies. Tripe palms refers to a characteristic velvety thickening of the palms, with exaggeration of normal skin markings. We present the second case of ovarian cancer in association with two coexisting par...
متن کاملA case of Seip-Lawrence syndrome with acanthosis nigricans.
Seip-Lawrence syndrome is the total lipodystrophy which unites the con genital and acquired forms of the disease under one eponym.1) In 1946, Lawrence2) originally characterized this syndrome by absence of subcutaneous fat tissue, insulin-resistant diabetes unassociated with ketosis, hepatic cirrhosis, hypermeta bolism under the presence of euthyroidism, and hyperlipemia. Since then we only rec...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Japanese Journal of Gastroenterological Surgery
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0386-9768,1348-9372
DOI: 10.5833/jjgs.24.108