Cutaneous metastasis from an epithelioid sarcoma
Keywords:
Epithelioid sarcoma, soft tissue sarcoma, cutaneous metastasesAbstract
We present a case of a 26-year-old man diagnosed with epithelioid sarcoma in the right leg with metastases to lung and 4 months later a papillomatous nodule development in the right pubic region that proved to be a cutaneous metastasis.
Cutaneous metastases have a frequency that ranges between 0.7 and 10%, occupying the eighteenth place as remote metastatic sites. When present, they usually do it as nodules near the primary tumor.
Epithelioid sarcoma is a rare tumor that constitutes less than 1% of all soft tissue sarcomas. These entities are of very low frequency and their association is exceptional.
Author Biographies
Cristina Escobar
Médica, residente de segundo, Sección de Dermatología, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
Gabriel Ceballos
Médico dermatólogo; docente, Sección de Dermatología Universidad de Antioquia.
Luis Alfonso Correa
Médico patólogo; docente de Dermatopatología, Grupo de Investigación Dermatológica, GRID, Sección de Dermatología, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
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