title: Painful cutaneous metastases from esophageal carcinoma.
abstract: Cutaneous metastases, which are not included among the painful dermal tumors, are primarily asymptomatic and of variable clinical appearance. Although, to our knowledge, this case report of painful cutaneous metastases is only the fifth in the literature, physicians who discover a painful tumor perhaps now should consider cutaneous metastasis. In this report, we describe painful nodular scalp lesions related to esophageal adenocarcinoma, which rarely metastasizes to the skin.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY 10029-6574, USA. ronnit@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Ronnit Hamuy
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Stein
authors.forename: James M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Spencer
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000556:secondary*; D000368:Aged; D002272:Carcinoembryonic Antigen; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology; D012535:Scalp; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*
chemical_list: D002272:Carcinoembryonic Antigen