Resection of Skin Metastases from Gastric Carcinoma with Long–Term Follow–Up: An Unusual Clinical Presentation

Abstract

We report a long-term disease-free survival of a patient with isolated cutaneous metastases of a gastric cancer. Usually the prognosis after occurrence of metastases to the skin is poor, but long-term survival after systemic therapy has been reported. This patient is clinically in remission more than 5 years after surgical resection of several cutaneous metastases and after successful resection of a local recurrence more than 1 year ago. One should be aware of such unusual clinical courses of a disease, and that the prognosis can deviate significantly from the average when the pattern of metastasis is unusual.