Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Facial skin metastasis due to small-cell lung cancer: a case report | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Open Access Facial skin metastasis due to small-cell lung cancer a case report Nikolaos Barbetakis 1 Georgios Samanidis1 Dimitrios Paliouras1 Elpida Samanidou2 Zoi Tzimorota3 Christos Asteriou1 Persefoni Xirou4 and Christodoulos Tsilikas1 Address Thoracic Surgery Department Theagenio Cancer Hospital A. Simeonidi Thessaloniki 54007 Greece 2General Surgery Department Theagenio Cancer Hospital A. Simeonidi Thessaloniki 54007 Greece 3Plastic Surgery Department Theagenio Cancer Hospital A. Simeonidi Thessaloniki 54007 Greece and 4Pathology Department Theagenio Cancer Hospital A. Simeonidi Thessaloniki 54007 Greece Email Nikolaos Barbetakis - nibarbet@ Georgios Samanidis - gsaman@ Dimitrios Paliouras - dpaliour@ Elpida Samanidou - elsaman@ Zoi Tzimorota - zoitzimor@ Christos Asteriou - chasteriou@ Persefoni Xirou - persxirou@ Christodoulos Tsilikas - ctsilikas@ Corresponding author Published 29 January 2009 Received 9 December 2007 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2009 3 32 doi 1752-1947-3-32 Accepted 29 January 2009 This article is available from http content 3 1 32 2009 Barbetakis et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction Cutaneous metastases in the facial region occur in less than of patients with metastatic cancer. They are an important finding and are not often the first sign leading to diagnosis. Case presentation We describe the case of a 64-year-old male patient who presented with dyspnea pleuritic pain loss of weight and a nodule on his left cheek. A chest X-ray revealed a left upper lobe mass with mediastinal lymphadenopathy. Excision .
