title: Unusual form of cutaneous infiltration by cancer.
abstract: Breast cancer is the most common visceral neoplasm which metastatizes in skin. Skin infiltration by breast cancer may appear as various types of neoplastic/inflammatory lesions, including plaques, pigskin-like areas, scirrhous morphea-like lesions, nodules, zosteriform lesions, and papulovescicles. An unusual form of cutaneous infiltration involving a mammary region bearing a post-mastectomy surgical skin scar is herein described: interestingly, such a cutaneous cancer involvement could not be included in the above classification, because it merely consisted of red-purple areas dealing with small telangiectasias, without any sign of inflammation.
authors.affiliation: Unit of Dermatology, Department of Surgical Sciences, Parma University, Parma, Italy.
authors.forename: Alftedo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zucchi
authors.forename: Francesca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Aimi
authors.forename: Alessandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cardis
authors.forename: Marcello
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Santini
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Tognetti
authors.forename: Fabio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zambito-Spadaro
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: De Panfilis
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fabrizi
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*