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Metastatic skin cancer; a case with signet ring cell histology
Y Inoue1, M Johno, K Kayashima
1Department of Dermatology, Kumamoto University School of Medicine, Japan.
The British Journal of Dermatology
|October 1, 1996
Abstract:
We report a 64-year-old Japanese man who developed metastatic skin cancer, in the form of 1-3 cm diameter dome-shaped tumours on his face and head. Histopathological examination demonstrated diastase-resistant periodic acid--Schiff and Alcian blue-positive signet ring cells, suggesting gastric carcinoma. Immunohistochemical staining showed that these cells were positive for carbohydrate antigen CA19-9.