Cutaneous metastases--carcinoma en cuirasse

Metastatic carcinoma of the skin develops per continuitatem, being disseminated by the lymphogenous and hematogenous pathways. From 3% to 5% of these metastases are described as cutaneous metastases. Metastases of the skin most frequently occur in breast cancer, and manifest as carcinoma en cuirasse characterized by thoracic wall lesions in the form of erythematous foci with induration as in scleroderma, or as exulcerating nodules scattered all over the skin surface. We studied patient with skin metastases according clinical and histological features. Carcinoma en cuirasse with sclerodermatomyositis like clinical appearances described in our female 49-year-old patient. She died one year after several excisions of skin metastases