Open AccessCholangiocarcinoma with Distant Cutaneous Metastases
Author(s) -
Bong Kyu Lee,
Young Ho Seo,
Nam Hun Lee,
So Young Joo,
Hyang Mi Ko
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
the korean journal of gastroenterology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.203
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 2233-6869
pISSN - 1598-9992
DOI - 10.4166/kjg.2009.54.5.342
Subject(s) - medicine , malignancy , percutaneous , adenocarcinoma , bile duct , bile duct cancer , radiology , cancer , pathology
Cutaneous metastases rarely develop in patients with internal malignancy. Cholangiocarcinoma, a malignant cancer of the bile duct, is a relatively rare adenocarcinoma and has a poor prognosis. Few reports have mentioned cutaneous metastases of cholangiocarcinoma, and the most of them were due to direct tumor seeding by percutaneous procedures. Herein, we report a case of cholangiocarcinoma with distant cutaneous metastases in a 60-year-old man.