Erschienen in:
01.01.2004 | Case Report
Sister Mary Joseph’s Nodule as a First Sign of Cancer of the Cecum: Report of a Case
verfasst von:
Raimondo Gabriele, M.D., Mario Borghese, M.D., Marco Conte, M.D., Luigi Basso, M.D.
Erschienen in:
Diseases of the Colon & Rectum
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Ausgabe 1/2004
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Excerpt
Cutaneous metastases of malignant neoplasms are not common, occurring between 0.7 and 9 percent of autopsy evaluations.
1 Those to the umbilicus, also known as Sister Mary Joseph’s nodule, are even more rare and represent only 10 percent of all secondaries to the skin.
2 These nodules usually arise from the gastrointestinal or genitourinary tract and may represent the first sign of a previously unknown primary tumor. This case demonstrates a Sister Mary Joseph’s nodule caused by an unknown primary cancer of the cecum. …