Recurrent Breast Cancer with Cutaneous Metastasis in the Late Term

Abstract

Breast cancer, which is a common cause of cutaneous metastasis, has substantially high mortality and morbidity rates in women. Skin metastasis of breast cancer usually occurs at the adjacent anterior chest wall, and scalp metastasis is very rare. Due to these rates, the preliminary diagnosis of the skin metastasis of breast cancer can be overlooked in case of a scalp mass, and this can result in inadequate or extra surgery. In this paper, we present the rare case of a patient who presented to our clinic with a scalp mass, and was operated with a preliminary diagnosis of a pyogenic granuloma; however, the patient’s histologic assessment revealed a diagnosis of late-term scalp metastasis of a breast mucinous carcinoma.

Keywords

• Breast cancer
• skin metastasis