Occult adenocarcinoma metastatic to a skin graft donor site.
Internal malignancies present with metastases to the skin 0.4% of the time. Cutaneous metastases not uncommonly develop in areas of damaged skin such as radiodermatitis and surgical scars. This report involves a 78-year-old male with metastatic adenocarcinoma from an unknown primary site that presented in a split-thickness skin graft donor site. This appears to be the first reported case of internal malignancy metastatic to skin altered by grafting.
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D000368:Aged; D000868:Anterior Compartment Syndrome / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D001706:Biopsy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D016038:Skin Transplantation