Subcutaneous Metastatic Adenocarcinoma: An Unusual Presentation of Colon Cancer - Case Report and Literature Review.
Subcutaneous metastasis from a visceral malignancy is rare with an incidence of 5.3%. Skin involvement as the presenting sign of a silent internal malignancy is an even rarer event occurring in approximately 0.8%. We report a case of a patient who presented to her dermatologist complaining of rapidly developing subcutaneous nodules which subsequently proved to be metastatic colon cancer, and we provide a review of the literature.
Division of Surgical Oncology and Endocrine Surgery, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, N.C., USA.
Omar H
OH
Llaguna
Payal
P
Desai
Anne B
AB
Fender
Daniel C
DC
Zedek
Michael O
MO
Meyers
Bert H
BH
O'Neil
Luis A
LA
Diaz
Benjamin F
BF
Calvo