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1Departments of *Medicine (Dermatology), and †Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.
The American Journal of Dermatopathology
|November 30, 2016
Abstract:
Internal malignancies occasionally metastasize to the skin, usually imparting a poor prognosis. In men, pulmonary malignancies are the second most common offending tumor. Roughly, half such lesions are adenocarcinomas. A small subset of pulmonary adenocarcinomas exhibits signet-ring morphology. To date, a cutaneous metastasis arising from a pulmonary signet-ring cell adenocarcinoma has not been reported.
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