title: Occult colon cancer with initial cutaneous metastatic manifestation: PET/CT detection.
abstract: Skin metastasis as initial clinical presentation of occult internal organ malignancy is of rare occurrence, predominantly encountered in breast and lung cancer. The search for the occult causative primary malignancy is usually difficult with conventional anatomy-based cross-sectional imaging. The authors present a case of cecal cancer with thoracic and abdominal cutaneous metastasis demonstrated by PET/CT.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ 85259, USA. vnguy01@gmail.com
authors.forename: Vien X
authors.initials: VX
authors.lastname: Nguyen
authors.forename: Ba D
authors.initials: BD
authors.lastname: Nguyen
authors.forename: Panol C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Ram
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D009382:Neoplasms, Unknown Primary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000556:secondary*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18