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Metastatic Gastric Adenocarcinoma Presenting as an Enlarging Plaque on the Scalp
Lifshitz OH, Berlin JM, Taylor JS, Bergfeld WF
Cutis. 2005;76:194-196.
We present a case report of metastatic gastric adenocarcinoma in which the cutaneous metastases were the first sign of disease recurrence. A 73-year-old man presented with painless red plaques on his scalp and forehead. He was diagnosed with gastric carcinoma with metastases to perigastric lymph nodes 3½ years earlier. Histopathology results revealed signet-ring cells consistent with gastric adenocarcinoma. The patient failed to respond to treatment with intralesional interleukin 2, previously reported to be effective, and expired 7 months later.

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