Garcia Andres, Mays Steven, Silapunt Sirunya
Department of Dermatology, University of Texas McGovern Medical School at Houston.
Dermatol Online J. 2017 Jan 15;23(1):13030/qt9052w9x1.
Cutaneous metastases secondary to neuroendocrinetumors are rare. Herein we report a case of a 75-yearoldwoman who presented with a rare cutaneousmetastatic disease. She was previously diagnosed withmetastatic neuroendocrine carcinoma of unknownprimary, with metastases to liver, lung, and bone.Biopsy of the skin lesion demonstrated archetypicalpathology and positive immunohistochemicalstaining for chromogranin A and synaptophysin. Thepatient started palliative chemo-radiation therapyand passed away soon after.
