Case Reports in Oncology (Oct 2010)

Subcutaneous Metastatic Adenocarcinoma: An Unusual Presentation of Colon Cancer – Case Report and Literature Review

  • Omar H. Llaguna,
  • Payal Desai,
  • Anne B. Fender,
  • Daniel C. Zedek,
  • Michael O. Meyers,
  • Bert H. O’Neil,
  • Luis A. Diaz,
  • Benjamin F. Calvo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1159/000321948
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 3
pp. 386 – 390

Abstract

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Subcutaneous metastasis from a visceral malignancy is rare with an incidence of 5.3%. Skin involvement as the presenting sign of a silent internal malignancy is an even rarer event occurring in approximately 0.8%. We report a case of a patient who presented to her dermatologist complaining of rapidly developing subcutaneous nodules which subsequently proved to be metastatic colon cancer, and we provide a review of the literature.

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