A Case of Cutaneous Metastasis from Carcinoma of the Hypopharynx / 대한피부과학회지

ABSTRACT

Distant metastases from squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck occur at many sites, most commonly lung and bone. Metastases to the skin are unusual, and account for fewer than 10% of all distant metastatic lesions. A 61-year-old man developed cutaneous metastasis two years later after the diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma of the hypopharynx had been made. He was presented with asymptomatic multiple erythematous hard nodules with telangiectasia on the right shoulder. This lesion was diagnosed histologically as poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma. The skin metastases improved with radiotherapy and palliative chemotherapy, including cisplantin, 5-fluorouracil.