Scrotal skin metastasis from rectum adenocarcinoma

Rare Tumors. 2013 Dec 5;5(4):e60. doi: 10.4081/rt.2013.e60. eCollection 2013.

Abstract

Cutaneous metastases of rectal adenocarcinoma is a rare phenomenon. We present a 65 year-old man with a painless nodule on the scrotal skin. Excisional biopsy of the nodules revealed a metastasis from rectum adenocarcinoma. Afterwards, the left scrotum was treated with a radiation therapy and the patient also received a salvage chemotherapy. The patient is still alive without any distant metastasis after the therapy, which was initiated 12 months ago.

Keywords: rectum carcinoma; scrotal skin metastasis; treatment.

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