Dermatology and Venereology Department, Military Teaching Hospital Mohamed V,
Rabat
Morocco
Case Report
Primary Cutaneous Apocrine Carcinoma with Distant Metastasis
Author(s): Titou Hicham, Boui Mohammed and Hjira NaoufalTitou Hicham, Boui Mohammed and Hjira Naoufal
Introduction: Cutaneous apocrine carcinomas (CAC) are rare adnexal malignant tumors preferentially localized in the axillary and anogenital regions. They are characterized by mammillated plaques or asymptomatic nodules and present a differential diagnosis problem with cutaneous metastases of breast adenocarcinoma. Metastatic CACs are a therapeutic challenge.
Case presentation: A 63-year-old man, chronic smoker, presented with painless left axillary mammillated plaques that had been slowly evolving for 18 months. Clinical examination found a tumor mass associated with magma of left axillary lymph nodes. Histological study and immunohistochemical staining of the skin evoked the diagnosis of cutaneous metastasis of breast adenocarcinoma. However, the diagnosis of axillary CAC was retained owing to the negativity of explorations in search of a prim.. Read More»
DOI:
10.4172/2577-0535.1000145
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