Lung Cancer Presented as Skin Metastases: A Case Report

Abstract

Lung cancer with skin metastasis is rare entity and associated with poor prognosis. It can easily lead to misdiagnosis and mistreatments when it presents with skin involvement, so early recognition of the skin metastasis is important as it may be the presenting sign of an underlying malignancy. Most common sites for skin metastasis are chest, back, abdomen, head, and neck and they are usually single or multiple painless nodules. However, the skin metastasis in squamous and small cell lung carcinoma is uncommon and it carries rapidly fatal clinical outcome. We present a rare case of non-small cell lung cancer presenting as rapidly growing skin metastasis. *Corresponding author: Arjun Kumar, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh, India, Tel: 8054809188; E-mail: aknlnegi@gmail.com Received August 30, 2018; Accepted September 06, 2018; Published September 13, 2018 Citation: Kumar A, Aggarwal P (2018) Lung Cancer Presented as Skin Metastases: A Case Report. J Pulm Respir Med 8: 470. doi: 10.4172/2161-105X.1000470 Copyright: © 2018 Kumar A, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.