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Cutaneous Metastasis of Transverse Colon Cancer with an Aberrant Pattern of CK7/CK20/CDX2 and High Microsatellite
Moeko Omiya1, Takaaki Murata2, Akira Sawaki3
1Department of General Internal Medicine, Shonan Kamakura General Hospital, Japan.
Abstract:
A 79-year-old woman was diagnosed with transverse colon cancer, moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma. She underwent surgery and postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy. At 80 years old, the patient exhibited changes in skin tone at the chest and abdomen with CK7+/CK20-/CDX2- immunostaining that was later identified as poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma. The diagnosis was cancer of unknown primary origin. The patient passed away three months after the detection of the skin lesion. Autopsy revealed recurrence at the transverse colon, multiple organ metastases, a similar postmortem immunostaining pattern, and high-frequency microsatellite instability (MSI-high). We herein report this case of CK7+/CK20-/CDX2- and MSI-high transverse colon cancer showing cutaneous metastasis.
