Cancer Of Internal Organs Research Articles

Multiple Skin Metastases from Cancer of Internal Organs

INTRODUCTION In cancer of the internal organs, metastasis into the skin is so rare that Gurlt observed not a single case among 16,637 patients, and neither Reichelmann (711 cases), nor Gussenbauer and Winiwarter (903 cases of gastric cancer), mentioned the occurrence of secondary tumors in the skin. Redlich, Heimann, and Krasting, however, recorded 2 oases out of 496, 2 out of 20,000, and 2 out of 12,730 patients respectively, Lex 7 out of 1183, and Mielecki 3 out of 487 cases. Daus collected 38, Sudo 72, and Kaufmann and Wolf 78 cases from the literature and from among their own patients. The present paper is an analysis of 110 cases which the writer has collected from the literature, to which are added 5 cases that have come under his own observation. One of the 5 was very kindly brought to his attention by Dr. Hojo. THE AUTHOR9S OWN CASES The fragments examined were taken from various organs which had been preserved in alcohol after formalin fixation, and stained with hematoxylin and eosin, Van Giesen9s stain, or when necessary, by Mallory9s, Bielshowsky9s, or Weigert9s (elastic fiber) method.