title: Extensive dermal metastases from primary signet-ring carcinoma of the urinary bladder.
abstract: Dermal metastasis from internal carcinoma occurs infrequently. Bladder carcinoma is a rare source of skin metastasis. This report details the case of a twenty-five-year-old man with a fatal primary signet-ring adenocarcinoma of the bladder who experienced unique, extensive, infiltrative, cutaneous metastases within a few weeks of his initial presentation with an occultly carcinomatous ruptured spleen. The literature on cutaneous metastasis from carcinoma of the bladder is reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland 20814.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Vidmar
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Baxter
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Devaney
mesh_terms: D002288:Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary*; D001749:Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*