Mallon E, Dawber R P
Department of Dermatology, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom.
J Am Acad Dermatol. 1994 Aug;31(2 Pt 2):319-21. doi: 10.1016/s0190-9622(94)70163-6.
The scalp is a relatively common site of cutaneous metastasis. The usual presentation is of single or multiple firm scalp nodules. A well-recognized but rarer presentation is alopecia neoplastica that is seen as single or multiple areas of cicatricial alopecia. We describe a unique presentation of scalp metastasis in a patient with breast carcinoma in whom hair loss was clinically inconspicuous. The metastasis responded to combination chemotherapy.
