Eccrine Porocarcinoma: A Challenging Diagnostic and Therapeutic Tumoral Entity
Eccrine porocarcinoma is a rare malignant cutaneous tumor with high rates of extracutaneous spread, and its diagnosis and management can be quite challenging. This is a case of an 82-year-old woman presenting with an asymptomatic and chronic pubic skin lesion for whom the work-up required many inves...
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| author | Ha Mo Linh Le Laurence Faugeras Véronique De Moor Caroline Fervaille Thierry Vander Borght Fanny Collette Lionel D’Hondt |
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| description | Eccrine porocarcinoma is a rare malignant cutaneous tumor with high rates of extracutaneous spread, and its diagnosis and management can be quite challenging. This is a case of an 82-year-old woman presenting with an asymptomatic and chronic pubic skin lesion for whom the work-up required many investigations and procedures to confirm the diagnosis of metastatic eccrine porocarcinoma. Indeed, the patient underwent a wide local excision of the skin lesion, imaging with an FDG-PET scan, a colonoscopy, and two inguinal node dissections. As illustrated in this case, surgery should always be considered to achieve disease remission. Other treatments such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy have also been reported in the literature without clear standard guidelines. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bdf89ea350cb4899822ee2b7288eed942022-12-21T22:50:56ZengKarger PublishersCase Reports in Oncology1662-65752021-05-0114270070510.1159/000514984514984Eccrine Porocarcinoma: A Challenging Diagnostic and Therapeutic Tumoral EntityHa Mo Linh Le0Laurence Faugeras1Véronique De Moor2Caroline Fervaille3Thierry Vander Borght4Fanny Collette5Lionel D’Hondt6Department of Oncology, CHU UCL Namur – Site Godinne, Yvoir, BelgiumDepartment of Oncology, CHU UCL Namur – Site Godinne, Yvoir, BelgiumDepartment of General Surgery, CHU UCL Namur – Site Godinne, Yvoir, BelgiumDepartment of Pathology, CHU UCL Namur – Site Godinne, Yvoir, BelgiumDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, CHU UCL Namur – Site Godinne, Yvoir, BelgiumDepartment of Oncology, CHU UCL Namur – Site Godinne, Yvoir, BelgiumDepartment of Oncology, CHU UCL Namur – Site Godinne, Yvoir, BelgiumEccrine porocarcinoma is a rare malignant cutaneous tumor with high rates of extracutaneous spread, and its diagnosis and management can be quite challenging. This is a case of an 82-year-old woman presenting with an asymptomatic and chronic pubic skin lesion for whom the work-up required many investigations and procedures to confirm the diagnosis of metastatic eccrine porocarcinoma. Indeed, the patient underwent a wide local excision of the skin lesion, imaging with an FDG-PET scan, a colonoscopy, and two inguinal node dissections. As illustrated in this case, surgery should always be considered to achieve disease remission. Other treatments such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy have also been reported in the literature without clear standard guidelines.https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/514984eccrine porocarcinomasweat gland tumorsmanagement |
| spellingShingle | Ha Mo Linh Le Laurence Faugeras Véronique De Moor Caroline Fervaille Thierry Vander Borght Fanny Collette Lionel D’Hondt Eccrine Porocarcinoma: A Challenging Diagnostic and Therapeutic Tumoral Entity Case Reports in Oncology eccrine porocarcinoma sweat gland tumors management |
| title | Eccrine Porocarcinoma: A Challenging Diagnostic and Therapeutic Tumoral Entity |
| title_full | Eccrine Porocarcinoma: A Challenging Diagnostic and Therapeutic Tumoral Entity |
| title_fullStr | Eccrine Porocarcinoma: A Challenging Diagnostic and Therapeutic Tumoral Entity |
| title_full_unstemmed | Eccrine Porocarcinoma: A Challenging Diagnostic and Therapeutic Tumoral Entity |
| title_short | Eccrine Porocarcinoma: A Challenging Diagnostic and Therapeutic Tumoral Entity |
| title_sort | eccrine porocarcinoma a challenging diagnostic and therapeutic tumoral entity |
| topic | eccrine porocarcinoma sweat gland tumors management |
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