Korean J Dermatol.  2000 Apr;38(4):558-560.

A Case of Cutaneous Metastasis from Carcinoma of the Urinary Bladder

• Park KW
• Jang IG
• Lee SC
• Kim SY

Abstract

Metastases to the skin from internal malignancy are very rare and have been reported to occur in 0.9% to 8% of patients with cancer. Particularly there are few cutaneous metastatic carcinomas from the urinary bladder and their incidence is 1% to 2% of the cutaneous metastasis. A 76-year-old man developed cutaneous metastasis six months later after the diagnosis of carcinoma of the bladder had been made. He was presented with asymptomatic erythematous indurated plaques on the left thigh and the inguinal area. This lesion was diagnosed histologically as poorly differentiated transitional cell carcinoma. We report a case of cutaneous metastasis from carcinoma of the urinary bladder showing the unusual clinical feature of an erythematous indurated plaque.

Keyword

Cutaneous metastasis; Urinary bladder

MeSH Terms

Aged
Carcinoma, Transitional Cell
Diagnosis
Humans
Incidence
Neoplasm Metastasis*
Skin
Thigh
Urinary Bladder*