Adenocarcinoma of oesophagus metastasising to the subcutaneous soft tissue

ABSTRACT

Skin and subcutaneous metastases are uncommon, and mostly originating from cancers of the breast, kidney, colon, lung, and melanoma. Oesophageal cancers rarely metastasise to the skin and subcutaneous soft tissue. Skin and subcutaneous metastases are associated with dismal prognosis. Only few related case reports have been published so far. In this report, we describe a 52 year old patient with lower oesophageal adenocarcinoma who developed subcutaneous metastasis, 9 months after neoadjuvant che-moradiation followed by trans-hiatal esophagectomy