Open AccessCarcinoma colon presenting as cutaneous metastasis to an old operative scar of hysterectomy
Author(s) -
Shilpi Singh Gupta,
Onkar Singh
Publication year - 2010
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 - 10.4103/0973-1482.73334
Subject(s) - medicine , asymptomatic , metastasis , presentation (obstetrics) , hysterectomy , adenocarcinoma , sigmoid colon , colorectal cancer , surgery , abdominal hysterectomy , general surgery , cancer , rectum
Cutaneous metastases from asymptomatic colonic carcinoma have been documented rarely in the literature. But cutaneous metastasis to an already present operative scar as the mode of presentation of otherwise asymptomatic colon cancer is an extremely rare phenomenon which has been described only thrice till now. We report such a case of adenocarcinoma of sigmoid colon which presented as a large subcutaneous metastasis to an already existing scar of hysterectomy.