Open AccessUnusual metastatic presentation of carcinoma hypopharynx
Author(s) -
D Niharika,
Sunder Sham,
Geeta S Narayanan,
Manjunath Nandennavar
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.140804
Subject(s) - medicine , pharynx , radiation therapy , lesion , metastasis , carcinoma , cancer , stage (stratigraphy) , hypopharyngeal cancer , head and neck , basal cell , head and neck cancer , distant metastasis , radiology , oncology , pathology , surgery , paleontology , biology
Cutaneous metastases from hypopharyngeal cancers is rare constituting about 0.8-1.3% and represent a sub-group of head and neck cancer patients who have very poor prognosis even when treated. We report a case of 65-year-old male diagnosed as carcinoma hypo pharynx stage IV who was on radiotherapy when he developed cutaneous metastasis over the chest wall, which initially presented as small nodules and later progressed into a proliferative lesion. Patient received further radiation to the metastatic lesion, but the disease was progressive, demonstrating that head and neck squamous cell cancer patients with skin metastasis fare poorly