55-Year-Old Female with Estrogen-Receptor-Positive Scalp Lesion

abstract

Cutaneous metastases are described in the literature as an occasional manifestation of metastatic cancer, usually in advanced situations, with the initial presenting manifestation of cancer estimated roughly less than 1% of incidences. The type of skin metastases has been shown to vary by age, sex, and primary tumor type. Skin metastases may occur from various tumor sites of origin in both children and adults (including rhabdomyosarcomas, adenocarcinomas various solid tumors from lung, breast, ovarian, uterine, and other sarcomas),^1–6 and have often heralded more widely metastatic disease as well as a poorer outcome.