title: Pulmonary Signet-Ring Cell Adenocarcinoma Metastatic to the Skin.
abstract: Internal malignancies occasionally metastasize to the skin, usually imparting a poor prognosis. In men, pulmonary malignancies are the second most common offending tumor. Roughly, half such lesions are adenocarcinomas. A small subset of pulmonary adenocarcinomas exhibits signet-ring morphology. To date, a cutaneous metastasis arising from a pulmonary signet-ring cell adenocarcinoma has not been reported.
authors.affiliation: Departments of *Medicine (Dermatology), and †Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.
authors.forename: Alan S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Boyd
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000556:secondary*; D018279:Carcinoma, Signet Ring Cell / Q000556:secondary*; D018450:Disease Progression; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D035583:Rare Diseases; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000556:secondary*