BACKGROUND Cutaneous metastasis is a rare event associated with poor prognosis for gastric cancer and has been rarely reported in the literature.CASE SUMMARY A 69-year-old male patient who had undergone salvage gastre...BACKGROUND Cutaneous metastasis is a rare event associated with poor prognosis for gastric cancer and has been rarely reported in the literature.CASE SUMMARY A 69-year-old male patient who had undergone salvage gastrectomy and a few courses of adjuvant chemotherapy 3 mo earlier for recurrent gastric cancer developed widespread cutaneous metastases.Due to the patient’s intolerance to further adjuvant chemotherapy,he was placed in hospice care and expired 1 mo later.In the literature,gastric cancers are rarely reported as the primary malignancies for cutaneous metastasis.We,thus,provide an update on a case review published in 2014 by reviewing 10 more case reports dated from 2014 to 2020.The average age for the new group of patients was 59.4±18.88-years-old.Thirty percent of the patients presented with cutaneous lesions and advanced gastric cancer synchronously while 70%developed cutaneous metastases 1.3 years to 14 years after the initial treatment for primary gastric cancer.Eighty percent of the patients received either local excision or chemo±radiation therapy to treat their cutaneous metastases.CONCLUSION This report highlights cutaneous metastasis as a late and untreatable metastasis of gastric cancer.展开更多
文摘BACKGROUND Cutaneous metastasis is a rare event associated with poor prognosis for gastric cancer and has been rarely reported in the literature.CASE SUMMARY A 69-year-old male patient who had undergone salvage gastrectomy and a few courses of adjuvant chemotherapy 3 mo earlier for recurrent gastric cancer developed widespread cutaneous metastases.Due to the patient’s intolerance to further adjuvant chemotherapy,he was placed in hospice care and expired 1 mo later.In the literature,gastric cancers are rarely reported as the primary malignancies for cutaneous metastasis.We,thus,provide an update on a case review published in 2014 by reviewing 10 more case reports dated from 2014 to 2020.The average age for the new group of patients was 59.4±18.88-years-old.Thirty percent of the patients presented with cutaneous lesions and advanced gastric cancer synchronously while 70%developed cutaneous metastases 1.3 years to 14 years after the initial treatment for primary gastric cancer.Eighty percent of the patients received either local excision or chemo±radiation therapy to treat their cutaneous metastases.CONCLUSION This report highlights cutaneous metastasis as a late and untreatable metastasis of gastric cancer.
