Small Cell Lung Carcinoma with Overt Cutaneous Metastasis; Unusual Case
Zehra Yasar *
Department of Chest Disease, Abant Izzet Baysal University, Medical School, Bolu, Turkey.
Vildan Tekelıoglu
Department of Internal Medicine, Abant Izzet Baysal University, Medical School, Bolu, Turkey.
Guray Can
Department of Internal Medicine, Abant Izzet Baysal University, Medical School, Bolu, Turkey.
Yusuf Yuce
Department of Internal Medicine, Abant Izzet Baysal University, Medical School, Bolu, Turkey.
Gulzade Ozyalvaclı
Department of Patology, Abant Izzet Baysal University, Medical School, Bolu, Turkey.
Ummugul Uyeturk
Department of Oncology, Abant Izzet Baysal University, Medical School, Bolu, Turkey.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Small cell lung carcinoma is a rapidly progressive neuroendocrine tumor having a poor prognosis. It is considered as a systemic disease, because it has diffuse involvement, distant organ metastasis, and regional lymphatic involvement at the time of initial diagnosis. While small cell lung carcinomahas a lot of metastasis to bone, liver, surrenal and other hemithorax in the onset of disease, cutaneous metastasis are rarely seen. Skin metastasis are encountered in lower than 0.5% of the patients with metastatic diseases. In this article, we aimed to present a case of small cell lung carcinoma with cutaneous metastasis which is rarely seen in the literature.
Keywords: Small cell lung carcinoma, Cutaneus metastasis; survival