Cutaneous Metastasis from Signet-ring Gastric Adenocarcinoma in a Carcinoma En Cuirasse Pattern: An Unusual Clinical-diagnostic Sequence

Cutaneous Metastasis from Signet-ring Gastric Adenocarcinoma in a Carcinoma En Cuirasse Pattern: An Unusual Clinical-diagnostic Sequence

Cutaneous metastasis (CM) of gastric adenocarcinoma (ADC) is rare and usually presents late in the course of the disease. We report a rare case of carcinoma en cuirasse (CEC) pattern of CM secondary to gastric malignancy in a 55-year-old male patient—the interesting part being that CM was the first-...

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Main Authors: Kaur, Sarabjit, Aggarwal, Parul, Dayal, Surabhi, Sangwan, Ankita, Jain, Vijay Kumar, Jindal, Nidhi
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4681231/
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Summary:Cutaneous metastasis (CM) of gastric adenocarcinoma (ADC) is rare and usually presents late in the course of the disease. We report a rare case of carcinoma en cuirasse (CEC) pattern of CM secondary to gastric malignancy in a 55-year-old male patient—the interesting part being that CM was the first-presenting sign, which on further histopathological and immunohistochemical evaluation led to the diagnosis of hidden gastric carcinoma. The finding of signet ring cells (SRCs) on cutaneous biopsy further added a differential of the rare possibility of primary cutaneous tumors.

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