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Adrenocortical carcinoma with delayed cutaneous metastasis
Author(s) -
Satter Elizabeth K.,
Barnette David J.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of cutaneous pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.597
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1600-0560
pISSN - 0303-6987
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0560.2007.00870.x
Subject(s) - medicine , malignancy , pathology , adrenocortical carcinoma , metastatic carcinoma , metastasis , peritoneum , lymph , lesion , biopsy , carcinoma , metastatic lesion , cancer
Adrenal cortical carcinoma (ACC) is an uncommon and aggressive malignancy. Patients often have metastatic disease at initial presentation, with the most common sites being the liver, local lymph nodes, lungs, peritoneum and bone. Despite a high frequency of metastases, there are only isolated reports of ACC that have metastasized to the skin. Herein, we report a case of an 82‐year‐old woman who presented with a cyst‐like lesion on her back, which on biopsy proved to be ACC metastatic from a primary tumor diagnosed 30 years previously.