Cutaneous metastasis of colon adenocarcinoma: case report and review of the literature

Abstract

Skin metastases from colorectal carcinoma are rare and signal advanced disease. We present a case of an 80-year-old male with a large skin metastatic focus in the lower abdomen, a year after resection of a colonic adenocarcinoma. The patient had already finished receiving his first cycle of chemotherapy shortly before the discovery of the abdominal nodules and at the same period a chest X-ray, revealed shadows at the base of the right lung.

Keywords

• Adenocarcinoma
• Neoplasm Metastasis
• Skin neoplasms