Publication details
Kožní metastázy
| Title in English | Skin metastases |
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| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | Skin metastases usually appear in advanced disease. Incidence of skin metastases is related to the frequency of malignant tumour types in population and to their biological behaviour. In women the most common is the breast cancer, followed by melanoma, ovarian tumours, orofacial tumours and colon cancer, in men the first is the melanoma, followed by lung cancer, colon cancer and orofacial tumours. Skin metastases often appear in the vicinity of primary tumour. Tumour can invade the skin per continuitatem from the primary site, or appear in the postoperative scar. Metastatic spreading is hematogenic or lymphogenic. Distant metastases are rarer, frequent site is the scalp. |