A rare case of fatal primary cutaneous mucinous carcinoma of the scalp with multiple in-transit and pulmonary metastases

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2005, Pages S76-S80

  Jih, Ming H ^a   Friedman, Paul M ^a,b   Kimyai Asadi, Arash ^a   Goldberg, Leonard H ^a,c  

^a DERMSURGERY ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^b University of Texas Medical School   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT RADIOTHERAPY; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BLISTER; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CHEMOSURGERY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COLLOID CARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CRANIECTOMY; DYSPNEA; EXCISION; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; FROZEN SECTION; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HAND; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN-TRANSIT METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; METASTASIS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NECK DISSECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAPULE; PAROTID GLAND; PAROTID GLAND CANCER; PAROTIDECTOMY; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP; SKIN CARCINOMA; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN NODULE; SUN EXPOSURE; TELANGIECTASIA; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TISSUE SECTION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; VERY ELDERLY; WIDE EXCISION; FATALITY; LUNG TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SKIN TUMOR;

ADENOCARCINOMA, MUCINOUS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PAROTID GLAND; SCALP; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33644878037     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: 10976787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2004.06.047     Document Type: Article

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