Cutaneous metastases from internal malignancies are uncommon and occur in 0.6%-10.4% of all patients with cancer. In most cases, cutaneous metastases develop after the initial diagnosis of the primary internal malignancy and late in the course of the disease. Skin tumors are infrequent in Asian population and cutaneous metastases are quite rare. Cutaneous metastases carry a poor prognosis with ...

Two patients contracted cutaneous anthrax after contact with infected bone meal. Awareness of the risk of infection from this source may help in achieving early clinical diagnosis and a low fatality rate following effective antibiotic therapy.

Cutaneous vasculitis has been described in association with various hematological malignancies, but it seems to be very uncommon among non Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHL). For this reason no attention has been given to the peculiarity of this rare association. We identified 5 cases of cutaneous vasculitis among 315 NHL patients examined at our Institution from 1984 through 1990 and after the appearan...

A 44-year-old woman had progressive burning parasthesias and sensory loss in both upper and lower limbs, followed by weakness of distal muscles of the hands and feet for four years. She had redness and swelling of both hands and feet, multiple painless ulcers over the dorsum of the fingers (Figure 1A) and feet (Figure 1B), and thickened, non-tender, bilateral, ulnar, superficial cutaneous branc...

BACKGROUND An elevated risk for cutaneous melanoma has been reported in individuals with nonmelanoma skin carcinoma (NMSC), but to the authors' knowledge, this association has not been prospectively studied in a large, multigeographic population of postmenopausal women. METHODS The association between NMSC and the incidence of cutaneous melanoma was assessed in the Women's Health Initiative O...

BACKGROUND Diagnosing cutaneous sarcoidosis and necrobiotic granulomas is challenging. OBJECTIVE Assessing the value of dermoscopy in differentiating cutaneous sarcoidosis from necrobiotic granulomas and evaluating whether their dermoscopic features will be altered after treatment. METHODS Nineteen cutaneous sarcoidosis and 11 necrobiotic granuloma patients (2 necrobiosis lipoidica, 4 granu...