Cutaneous metastasis of gastric adenocarcinoma presenting as carcinoma “en cuirasse”

ejd.2013.1950 Auteur(s) : Yuichiro Endo1,2 yendou-tky@umin.ac.jp, Reiko Matsumoto1, Reiko Taki1, Ken-ichi Toda1 1 Department of Dermatology, Kitano Hospital, Osaka, Japan 2 Department of Dermatology, Graduate School of Medicine, 54 Kawahara-cho, Shogoin, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan Carcinoma en cuirasse is a very rare entity of metastatic carcinoma of the skin. As the lesion is studded with inflammatory metastatic plaque and infiltration, it is named after its appearance like a coat of armour [...]