Open AccessCutaneous metastasis: An unusual presenting feature of urologic malignancies
Author(s) -
Ashok Me,
Anju Sussanna Thomas,
Nivedita Suresh,
Shashank Malagi Shashidhar
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
urology annals
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.355
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 0974-7834
pISSN - 0974-7796
DOI - 10.4103/0974-7796.184882
Subject(s) - medicine , metastasis , prostatic adenocarcinoma , incidence (geometry) , renal cell carcinoma , adenocarcinoma , prostate , prostate carcinoma , disease , carcinoma , feature (linguistics) , pathology , oncology , dermatology , cancer , physics , optics , linguistics , philosophy
Urological malignancies are well known for their ability to metastasize widely. The incidence of cutaneous metastasis from all urologic malignancies has been reported to be 0.73-1.3% with the primary most commonly being renal cell carcinoma followed by carcinoma bladder, adenocarcinoma prostate, and testicular germ cell tumor in decreasing order of frequency. Metastasis to the skin is unusual and has been predominantly reported as a late manifestation of the disease. We describe two patients with urologic malignancies who had cutaneous metastasis as their initial presenting feature.