Open AccessZosteriform skin metastases: Clue to an undiagnosed breast cancer
Author(s) -
Neha C Virmani,
Yugal K Sharma,
Narayan K. Panicker,
Kedarnath Dash,
Milind A Patvekar,
Kirti Deo
Publication year - 2011
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 - 10.4103/0019-5154.91838
Subject(s) - medicine , dermatome , malignancy , breast cancer , cancer , melanoma , skin cancer , dermatology , oncology , surgery , cancer research
Cancer metastases represent the most devastating aspect of malignancy, since the mortality of cancer patients is mainly related to the metastatic behavior of the primary neoplasm. Skin metastases are usually late events in the course of tumor progression. Excluding melanoma, the most common tumor to metastasize to the skin is breast cancer. Patients who develop cutaneous metastases rarely present with a zosteriform distribution. Herein, we present a 60-year-old female, an undiagnosed case of breast cancer, with zosteriform metastases along her right T2-T3 dermatome.