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Clinically occult cutaneous metastases.

Resnik KS, DiLeonardo M, Gibbons G

Institute for Dermatopathology, Conshohocken, Pennsylvania 19428, USA. kresnik@ameripath.com

Cutaneous metastases present themselves in a variety of clinical patterns and tend to be manifested as indurated papules/nodules/tumors. Some of those clinical expressions are unique for certain types of metastases. This report describes an entirely different phenomenon of clinically incognito cutaneous metastases that were only apparent histopathologically as an incidental finding.

Published 19 November 2006 in J Am Acad Dermatol, 55(6): 1044-7.
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