Cutaneous Metastasis at a Surgical Drain Site after Gastric Cancer Resection
| Autor: | Christos Tsalikidis, Helen Bolanaki, Anastasios J. Karayiannakis, Constantinos Simopoulos |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
| Předmět: |
Chemotherapy
medicine.medical_specialty Poor prognosis Wound implantation business.industry medicine.medical_treatment Poorly differentiated Gastric carcinoma Abdominal wall metastasis lcsh:Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens medicine.disease lcsh:RC254-282 digestive system diseases Cancer resection Surgery Lesion Published: December 2010 Oncology medicine Disseminated disease Skin metastasis medicine.symptom business Cutaneous metastasis |
| Zdroj: | Case Reports in Oncology Case Reports in Oncology, Vol 3, Iss 3, Pp 495-497 (2010) |
| ISSN: | 1662-6575 |
| DOI: | 10.1159/000323559 |
| Popis: | Cutaneous metastasis from intra-abdominal malignant solid tumours such as gastric adenocarcinoma is very rare. Here, we report the case of a 76-year-old male patient with a T4N2M0, poorly differentiated, signet-ring cell gastric carcinoma, who underwent potentially curative resection of the tumour and developed cutaneous metastasis at the site of the surgical drain 4 months after the operation while he was on chemotherapy. The lesion involved the skin and the subcutaneous fat only. A CT scan revealed local recurrence at the resection bed but no distant metastases. The patient died 1 month later. It is concluded that the development of cutaneous metastasis after gastric carcinoma resection indicates tumour recurrence or disseminated disease and is associated with poor prognosis. |
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