title: Cutaneous metastases from carcinoma breast: the common and the rare.
abstract: Cancer metastasis is quite devastating to the patient as well as the physician and may herald the onset, dissemination or recurrence of malignancy. Breast carcinoma metastasis is the most common carcinoma encountered by dermatologists and it presents in various morphological and histological forms. Here, we present two varied cases, the first being the common nodular metastasis from a previously treated intraductal carcinoma and the second, the rarer variant, carcinoma erysipeloides as a heralder of the invasion of an incompletely treated disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Skin and STD, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, India. smitha.prabhu@manipal.edu
authors.forename: Smitha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Prabhu
authors.forename: Sathish B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Pai
authors.forename: Sripathi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Handattu
authors.forename: Mohan H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Kudur
authors.forename: Vani
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Vasanth
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D002285:Carcinoma, Intraductal, Noninfiltrating / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*