Open AccessRemote Cutaneous Breast Carcinoma Metastasis Mimicking Dermatitis
Author(s) -
Annakan Navaratnam,
S Chandrasekharan
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
indian journal of dermatology/indian journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.395
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1998-3611
pISSN - 0019-5154
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5154.147881
Subject(s) - medicine , malignancy , breast cancer , dermatology , breast carcinoma , presentation (obstetrics) , metastasis , lobular carcinoma , invasive lobular carcinoma , carcinoma , disease , cancer , metastatic carcinoma , pathology , radiology , ductal carcinoma , invasive ductal carcinoma
Cutaneous metastases from primary internal malignancies are an uncommon presentation. Cutaneous metastases are more frequently seen in breast cancer than in any other visceral malignancy in women. Medical practitioners should be vigilant of the possibility of unusual presentations of metastatic disease in breast cancer patients with lobular carcinoma presenting as cutaneous lesions mimicking benign dermatological conditions. Herein, we present a case of a 75-year-old woman presenting with cutaneous lobular breast carcinoma metastases on her anterior right leg, which had previously been misdiagnosed as dermatitis for 9 years