Cutaneous metastasis revealing a relapse of gastric linitis: Another case.

Category Primary study
JournalInternational journal of surgery case reports
Year 2013
INTRODUCTION: Cutaneous metastasis from gastric cancer is a rare occurrence. The linitis gastric carcinoma accounts only 8.7% of all gastric cancers. PRESENTATION OF CASE: We report a case of female patient who was followed for linits cancer with peritoneal metastasis treated by six cycles of chemotherapy. After seventeen months of control, the relapse of the disease revealed by occurrence of cutaneous metastatsis. DISCUSSION: Cutaneous metastasis from linit gastric is rare and the prognostic remains poor. The treatment is palliative. CONCLUSION: This rare presentation should encourage the practitioners to biopsy any suspicion skin lesion.
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First added on: May 03, 2023