Sister Mary Joseph's Nodule as a First Sign of Cancer of the Cecum: Report of a Case

Abstract

Cutaneous metastases of malignant neoplasms are not common, occurring between 0,7 and 9 percent of autopsy evaluations. Those to the umbilicus, also known as Sister Mary Joseph'nodule, are even more rare and represent only 10 percent of all secundaries to the skin. 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 od the cecum.