Cutaneous metastasis from breast carcinoma: a brief report of a rare variant and proposed morphological classification
GJO-Gulf Journal of Oncology [The]. 2013; (14): 90-94
in English
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ABSTRACT
Breast carcinoma is the second commonest cancer in women after non-melanoma skin cancers and, excluding melanoma, the most common tumor to metastasize to the skin in women. Cutaneous metastasis from breast cancer has varied presentations but there is no well-established classification which includes them all. We report a 69 year-old lady with advanced primary ductal carcinoma of right breast [Ct[4]cN[1]cM[0]] who presented five months after radical mastectomy with very extensive cutaneous metastases in absence of distant spread. Skin involvement was in the form of nodules and purpuric papulo-vesicles on a background of erythema which clinically mimicked lymphatic malformation. We also propose a morphological classification of the cutaneous metastasis from breast cancer
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IMEMR (Eastern Mediterranean)
Main subject:
Skin
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Skin Neoplasms
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Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast
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Lymphatic Diseases
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Neoplasm Metastasis
Type of study:
Case report
Limits:
Female
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Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Gulf J. Oncol.
Year:
2013
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