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- Title
METÁSTASIS CUTÁNEAS: Como manifestación inicial y de recidiva de cáncer de mama, a propósito de un caso.
- Authors
Cortés Aedo, Francisca; Figueroa Navarro, Julián; Palet Correa, Esteban Enrique; Barra Ortiz, Paulina Verónica
- Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Cutaneous metastases (MC) are a rare phenomenon in patients suffering from visceral cancer, in women they are mainly due to breast cancer (CDM). MC can occur as a manifestation of advanced cancer or as a sign of recurrence of a cancer in remission. The clinical presentation of a CDM in skin is very varied, being present is an indicator of advanced disease and, in turn, of poor prognosis, where the nodular clinical variant is the most representative. PRESENTATION OF THE CASE: Female patient, 58 years old. With history in 2005 of MC as the first manifestation of BC. After treatment with chemo and radiotherapy she presented satisfactory evolution and regression of CM. It was resolved later with surgery and hormonal therapy, continuing in ambulatory control. In 2018, the patient complained of a cutaneous lesion in the right leg. Physical exam also revealed a left mammary skin lesion. Biopsy was performed on both lesions. It reported carcinoma in situ in the right leg and dermal metastasis of mammary ductal carcinoma with intraepidermal extension in the left mammary and cervical area. DISCUSSION: CM are generally found after discovering the mammary tumor, they are rarely its first manifestation. As late manifestation of the disease, CM have been reported up to ten years later. The presence of MC by CDM generally implies a broad dissemination of the disease, taking into account this diagnosis could be of great help in terms of an opportunity for treatment.
- Publication
Revista ANACEM, 2019, Vol 13, Issue 1, p28
- ISSN
0718-5308
- Publication type
Article