Medicina (Jan 2016)

Multiple gastrointestinal metastases of Merkel cell carcinoma

  • Eligijus Poškus,
  • Gediminas Platkevičius,
  • Vilma Simanskaitė,
  • Ernesta Rimkevičiūtė,
  • Marius Petrulionis,
  • Kestutis Strupas

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medici.2016.09.001
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 52, no. 5
pp. 321 – 324

Abstract

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Merkel cell carcinoma is an aggressive skin malignancy. Primary Merkel cell carcinomas are treated by wide radical excision with or without adjuvant radiotherapy, while benefits of adjuvant chemotherapy remain doubtful. There are only several cases of gastrointestinal metastases of Merkel cell carcinoma reported so far. We report a case of recurrent Merkel cell carcinoma with metastases to the stomach and the small intestines after wide excision of primary Merkel cell carcinoma.

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