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Delayed Cutaneous Metastasis of Gastric Carcinoma
Author(s) -
Fujiwara Sakuhei,
Ichikawa Hiroki,
Matsunaga Etsuji,
Shinkai Hiroshi,
Takayasu Susumu,
Wada Koichi,
Sekine Hiroshi
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
the journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.9
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1346-8138
pISSN - 0385-2407
DOI - 10.1111/j.1346-8138.1989.tb01257.x
Subject(s) - pathology , dermis , stomach , medicine , autopsy , metastasis , lesion , carcinoma , gastric carcinoma , biopsy , cancer , histopathological examination
This paper describes a case of skin cancer resembling carcinoma en cuirasse associated with multiple bone lesions, which were both judged to be due to metastasis of poorly differentiated carcinoma of the stomach, the primary lesion excised ten years previously. Overt bone involvement had been observed for more than two years and a half. Histologic examination of a skin biopsy specimen showed that carcinoma cells had infiltrated into the middle and lower dermis, forming clusters and strands in an abundunce of fibrous stromata. No primary lesion was detected in the remnant stomach at autopsy.