Could a Cutaneous Lesion Mean Gastric Cancer? Case Report of a Rare Diagnostic Tool and the Management of a Cardiac Complication during Chemotherapy

• 作者: Manuela Machado
• 来源期刊: 癌症治疗(英文)
• 学科: 医学
• 关键词: Gastric Cancer Cutaneous Metastasis Intracardiac Thrombus
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（10）
• 页码范围: 639-645
• 页数: 7页
• 分类号: R73

摘要

Cutaneous presentation of gastric cancer is very rare. This case report is about a patient with a metastatic gastric cancer in which the diagnosis was made by a cutaneous biopsy. Following this unusual diagnostic tool, the patient had an intracardiac thrombus, during the chemotherapy regimen, which wasn’t a contraindication for pursuing chemotherapy treatment for over 12 months. This case report is presented to make clinicians aware of a possible atypical sign of presentation of gastrointestinal tract cancer, as well as the importance of clinical suspicion of a well-known problem affecting cancer patients such as venous thromboembolism and its repercussions in the treatment options.