A Case of Cutaneous Metastasis from Carcinoma of the Urinary Bladder.
- Author:
Kee Woan PARK
1
;
In Gang JANG
;
Sang Chin LEE
;
Si Yong KIM
Author Information
1. Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Cutaneous metastasis;
Urinary bladder
- MeSH:
Aged;
Carcinoma, Transitional Cell;
Diagnosis;
Humans;
Incidence;
Neoplasm Metastasis*;
Skin;
Thigh;
Urinary Bladder*
- From:Korean Journal of Dermatology
2000;38(4):558-560
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Metastases to the skin from internal malignancy are very rare and have been reported to occur in 0.9% to 8% of patients with cancer. Particularly there are few cutaneous metastatic carcinomas from the urinary bladder and their incidence is 1% to 2% of the cutaneous metastasis. A 76-year-old man developed cutaneous metastasis six months later after the diagnosis of carcinoma of the bladder had been made. He was presented with asymptomatic erythematous indurated plaques on the left thigh and the inguinal area. This lesion was diagnosed histologically as poorly differentiated transitional cell carcinoma. We report a case of cutaneous metastasis from carcinoma of the urinary bladder showing the unusual clinical feature of an erythematous indurated plaque.
