Background Cutaneous metastases of internal malignant tumors are rare. Though, they sometimes reveal the first manifestation of a malignant tumor. Methods The histopathologic files of two years in two German departments of dermatology (one in Thuringia, one in Saxonia) were investigated for histopathologic evidence of metastatic spread of internal cancer to the skin. Clinical and histologic dat...

Metastasis from colorectal carcinoma occurs by either lymphatic or hematogenous spread. The most common sites of colorectal metastasis are the liver and lung. Involvement of the skin, muscles and bones are quite rare. The prognosis in such patients is usually poor. Herewith, we are reporting a case of colonic carcinoma who had cutaneous metastasis, muscular involvement and diffuse skeletal meta...

Lung cancer is a common malignancy that is frequently associated with distant subcutaneous metastasis. However, reports of subcutaneous metastasis of lung cancer after three surgeries for recurrent brain metastasis are scarce. The present study describes the case of a 49-year-old female patient who was admitted to our hospital with a cutaneous mass. The patient had a history of lung cancer and ...

A 61-year-old male was admitted to the hospital with tumors in the scalp (A), face (B), and neck (C) that had been present for four month with an acute decrease in visual acuity. These tumors have progressed to ulceration. Clinical examination observed although limited 3 lumps varying sizes from 1,5mm to 2 cm and ulcerated at the center. Dermoscopy was objective polymorphic vessels. The differe...

bronchiolo-alveolar carcinoma with subcutaneous chest wall metastasis is a very rare presentation. a case of 36- year-old male with metastatic subcutaneous chest nodule of bronchiolo-alveolar carcinoma, diagnosed by fine needle aspiration cytology, is reported here. cutaneous metastases are of diagnostic importance because they may be the first manifestation of an undiscovered internal malignan...

Haemangiosarcoma is a rare vascular tumour in horses, usually originating from blood vessel endothelial cells. We present the case of an 8-day-old foal, referred for atypical large subcutaneous mass on left side since birth. Ultrasonographically, it showed multiple cavities with hypoechoic content, marked vascularisation and fluid movement between cavities. As nature suggested that surgery coul...

pulmonary adenocarcinoma is one of the major types of lung cancers in which metastasis is not uncommon. hereby, we report a case of pulmonary adenocarcinoma with multiple muscular, cutaneous, pancreatic and peritoneal metastases. actually, all these features occurring in one patient makes it an extraordinary case. a rare anatomic variation, double inferior vena cava (ivcs), was another rare man...

Purpose: The development of a genetic signature for the identification of high-risk cutaneous melanoma tumors would provide a valuable prognostic tool with value for stage I and II patients who represent a remarkably heterogeneous group with a 3% to 55%chance of disease progression and death 5 years from diagnosis. Experimental Design: A prognostic 28-gene signature was identified by analysis o...

The skin is an unusual location for métastases from visceral carcinoma, and cutaneous métastases from gastric carcinoma are rare. Cutaneous métastases display various clinical features, but usually occur as non-specific firm nodules. However, no cases of occult métastases from gastric carcinoma have been reported. We describe here a patient with clinically unapparent cutaneous metastasis fi^om ...

Malignant melanoma is an aggressive cutaneous melanocytic neoplasia of fast spread1. Despite its diagnosis, the disease mortality still reaches high levels. Metastasis to the oral cavity of the cutaneous melanoma is rare2-5: until 2001 less than 30 cases of metastasis in the palatine tonsils had been published3. This type of dissemination is blood-born and the prognosis is deleterious. The reas...