A Case of Skin Metastasis Manifested as a Presenting Sign of Pancreatic Tail Cancer.
10.5021/ad.1995.7.3.240
- Author:
Jae Young CHOI
;
Tae Jin YOON
;
Woo Young SIM
;
Choong Rim HAW
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
First sign;
Pancreatic cancer;
Skin metastasis
- MeSH:
Adenocarcinoma;
Aged;
Humans;
Male;
Neoplasm Metastasis*;
Pancreas;
Pancreatic Neoplasms;
Shoulder;
Skin*;
Tail*;
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
- From:Annals of Dermatology
1995;7(3):240-243
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
A 68-year-old male patient visited our clinic complaining of a single skin lesion on the left shoulder for 5 months. The lesion was a bluish to pigmented, bean-sized nodule. No subjective symptoms and signs accompanied it. Histologically, the tumor mass was composed tumor emboli in the vessels and moderately differentiated neoplastic glands lined by anaplastic cells. These findings were consistent with the metastatic adenocarcinoma. Abdominal sonography and CT scanning showed a mass at the tail of the pancreas. Therefore, we diagnosed this skin lesion as a metastatic adenocarcinoma originating from the pancreatic tail. We report herein a rare case of skin metastasis from pancreatic tail cancer, in which the cutaneous involvement was the first sign of the internal malignancy.
