Skin metastasis from small cell lung cancer

Patients with skin metastasis always had disseminated metastases in many organs. We herein report an unusual case with skin metastasis from small cell lung cancer (SCLC). The patient was treated with platinum-containing chemotherapy, and the response to the therapy was evaluated as partial response. The patient had slowly progressive disease and died of SCLC 16 months after the diagnosis of the diseases. If skin lesions, whether it may be typical or not, are found in SCLC patients, biopsy from the lesion would be considered to perform. Although trunk may be the most common sites, it is important to suspect such metastasis occurs in patients with SCLC.