Cutaneous Lesions in a Patient with Cancer
- Resource Type
- Brief Communication
- Authors
- Kumar, Parmod; Sundriyal, Deepak; Kumar, Arvind
- Source
- Indian Journal of Surgical Oncology. 13(2):359-360
- Subject
- Cutaneous metastases from oral cavity cancer
Head and neck cancer
Squamous cell carcinoma
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 0975-7651
0976-6952
A 61-year-old male with a diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the oral cavity with pulmonary metastases was referred to us for palliative chemotherapy after the failure of a taxane and platinum combination. On examination, he had a Karnofsky performance status (PS) of 50 and a body mass index of 17.5 kg/m2. Systemic examination was unremarkable except nodular and plaque-like itchy lesions on the left lateral chest wall of 3-week duration.