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Immunohistochemical evaluation of the probability of skin metastasis in gastric cancer Volume 9, numéro 3, April- May 1999

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Department of Dermatology, Surugadai Hospital, Nihon University, 1-8-13, Kanda Surugadai, Tokyo, 101-0062, Japan.
  • Page(s) : 214-7
  • Année de parution : 1999

Despite its great surface area, the skin is a relatively uncommon site for metastasis by internal malignancies [1]. The present case of advanced gastric cancer, which manifested as multiple metastatic subcutaneous nodules, occurred in a 56-year-old Japanese man. Is it possible to detect any specific factors which have the potential to cause skin metastasis in such gastric cancers? There have been some investigations to try to reveal [...]